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We all fail, every day. Sometimes it's small defeats we have to take, sometimes big ones. This guidebook describes how best to deal with failures and turn defeats into victories. The author can certainly talk out of the box, because he himself has already gone down several times - but always got up again.
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Markus Seidel
Fail better!
A guide to successful failure
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Titel
After failure, the real fun begins!
My own failure (and what became of it)
Everyone fails - every day!
The thick skin
Turn defeats into victories
Reasons for failure
The dark clouds on the horizon
Allow! Let it happen!
Of right and wrong questions
Conclusion
Fine words for failure
Celebrities successful Failed
Impressum neobooks
After failure, the real fun begins!
Failure is no fun. Anyone who claims otherwise is lying or his failure is a little bit longer ago and he has long since basked in new success. Because then it's a little easier to romanticize the former defeat.
But it's also a fact: Victory is even more fun if you've suffered a failure before. But until then you have to take a lot of punishment. Those who fail are often stigmatized as the one "who didn't make it". And to live with such a stigma and not to let it get you down is often difficult (see the chapter "The thick skin"). A "culture of failure and second chances" is not yet too strongly developed in this country, unlike in the USA, for example. To consider failure as a productive part of learning, this apparently only applies to children, for example when they learn to swim or walk - they simply practice it until they can. For adults, however, the principle of "trial and error" is hardly accepted. This is wrong.
A rethink is necessary, and perhaps something is gradually happening in this respect: At the moment, the so-called "FuckUp Nights", which take place everywhere and where people get on a stage and talk about their failure, are very popular. You can think what you want about it, but I'm sure that these events take away the fear of failure at least a little bit. And in the best case they learn from the mistakes of those who stand there on stage. That is quite a lot, I mean.
That's why I now also put myself on the (literary) stage and tell you about my very own pile of failures, which ultimately served me as a basis for something new.
My own failure (and what became of it)
At four in the morning my alarm clock rang. At half past five I had to be in the port of Hamburg, then it was time to go: container loads had to be loaded or unloaded, a very sweaty and also badly paid job. Once I was busy unloading TV sets for three or four hours - rarely in my life have I sweated more than at this work (and I was a competitive athlete for a long time).
I was 34 years old, had a high school diploma, completed training as a bookseller, had a master's degree in German studies in Hanover, Vienna and Berlin, had written literary criticism for various daily newspapers during my studies and had worked as an editor in a publishing house, had written five novels in the six years before, two of which had sold quite well (about 14,000 copies each), had received a prestigious literary prize, had taken part in many readings and had written essays and short stories for newspapers. I was in conversation.
And then this: my publisher rejected my new book (the last two books hadn't sold well), my agent couldn't find another publisher for the manuscript, the newspapers lost interest in my contributions, and even magazines stopped talking about me. In short: That was it for now. The whole thing happened within a year, bit by bit the ground had broken from under my feet.
