A guide to the art of failing well—with actionable tips and a gentle approach.This is a hopeful consoling gentle book about failure. Our societies talk a lot about success but the reality is that no one gets through life without failing - in small and usually also in large ways. Sometimes our failures are very obvious at other times we feel we have to conceal them out of shame. This book encourages us to accept the role that failure plays for all of us and to feel compassion for ourselves for the messes we can’t help but make as we go through our lives.Full of actionable tips on how to approach life's inevitable failures from small to large this is the perfect volume for anyone who has ever gone through a breakup suffered a career crisis made enemies fumbled a project or wasted their time. (In other words: everyone.)There is nothing more human than failing—and nothing wiser and more necessary failing well.