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Paperback. Colin Feltham brings a much needed perspective on our perpetual striving towards perfectibility. Time to accept our non-omniscience and to rethink what it means to fail. Series: The Art of Living. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JMS; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 228. Series: Art of Living. 160 pages. Colin Feltham brings a much needed perspective on our perpetual striving towards perfectibility. Time to accept our non-omniscience and to rethink what it means to fail. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JMS; VSP. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 13. Weight: 228.
Failure, success's ugly sister, is inevitable - cognitively, biologically and morally. We all make mistakes, we all die, and we all get it wrong. A chain of flaws can be traced through all phenomena, natural and human. We see impending and actual failures in individual lives, in marriages, careers, in religion, education, psychotherapy, business, nations, and in entire civilizations. And there are chronic and imperceptible failures in everyday domains that most of the time we barely notice, often until it is too late. Colin Feltham expores what constitutes failure across a number of domains. He takes guidance from ... Read more
Failure, success's ugly sister, is inevitable - cognitively, biologically and morally. We all make mistakes, we all die, and we all get it wrong. A chain of flaws can be traced through all phenomena, natural and human. We see impending and actual failures in individual lives, in marriages, careers, in religion, education, psychotherapy, business, nations, and in entire civilizations. And there are chronic and imperceptible failures in everyday domains that most of the time we barely notice, often until it is too late. Colin Feltham expores what constitutes failure across a number of domains. He takes guidance from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
The Art of Living
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Durham, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844655236
SKU
V9781844655236
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Ref
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About Colin Feltham
Colin Feltham is Emeritus Professor of Critical Counselling Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He has written over twenty books including, most recently, What's Wrong with Us? (2007) and Critical Thinking in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2010).
Reviews for Failure
"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 ... Read more