The Up Side Of Down: Why Failing Well Is The Key To Success (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
I wanted to like this book . . . and I did like this book. But it wasn't as good as I had hoped. There were some interesting thoughts and I appreciated some of her chapters more than others - especially the ones about the importance of learning from failure and providing forgiveness to allow for people to continually fail to eventually succeed. But . . . it was dry. There were typos that shouldn't have been in the book that always make me suspect and it wasn't as cohesive as I would have liked. The thesis is useful. Failing is how we all learn. But we adults try to avoid failure, and without it, it's hard to be great. The problem with this book is that it meanders off on innumerable, only slightly relevant, largely libertarian tangents. She argues with 9/11 "truthers," extols the virtues of Hawaii's HOPE probation program, and encourages her husband to play video games when he gets laid off. Sometimes interesting, sometimes not. But definitely not paradigm shifting. But since it's better than Twilight, it gets 3 stars, not 2.
What do You think about The Up Side Of Down: Why Failing Well Is The Key To Success (2014)?
In "The Up Side of Down," McArdle out-Gladwells Gladwell's latest book. Highly recommended.
—tamzblood
An interesting look at the recommended way to fail well: Quickly and with resilience.
—nenevelvet
ok, author was a better speaker than a writer, in my opinion
—unipony30
Great book. Easy reading and recommending it to friends!!
—jazziegirl131
