Failure (Art of Living) (The Art of Living) (Art of Living (Acumen))
'An erudite and exceedingly well-written treatise.' --The Psychologist'His quest to write a book about concepts of failure and where they come from was driven by alternating views of his own interesting life (his pre-academic background includes spells working for the mental health charity MIND and counselling in a bank), and by the urge to provide a 'corrective to the hype about happiness - the many self-help books around which purport to show the 'road to happiness'.' Prof Feltham's research into what constitutes failure took him from philosophers like Diogenes and Saint Augustine through to Sartre and Camus and other thinkers, artists and poets. Failure is widely present across all these domains, yet we tend to deny our failures, he says.' --Yorkshire Post