If You Should Fail
- Author Joe Moran
- Narrator Ned Porteous
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 24 September 2020
- Run Time 5 hours and 28 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Philosophy of mind, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Society and Social Sciences.
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Do you ever feel like a failure?
Enter widely acclaimed observer of daily life Professor Joe Moran, not to tell you that everything will be all right in the end, but to reassure you that failure is an occupational hazard of being human. It's the small print in life's terms and conditions.
Covering everything from examination dreams to fourth-placed Olympians, If You Should Fail is about how modern life, in a world of self-advertised success, makes us feel like failures, frauds and imposters. We need more narratives of failure, and to see that not every failure can be made into a success - and that's OK.
As Moran shows, even the supremely gifted Leonardo da Vinci could be seen as a failure. Most artists, writers, sports stars and business people face failure. We all will, and can learn how to live with it. To echo Virginia Woolf, beauty "is only got by the failure to get it . . . by facing what must be humiliation - the things one can't do."
Combining philosophy, psychology, history and literature, Moran's ultimately upbeat reflections on being human, and his critique of how we live now, offers comfort, hope - and solace.
'Joe Moran is the most perceptive and original observer of British life that we have' Matthew Engel
© Joe Moran 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
This is a deeply tender book, and full of wise insight and honesty. Moran manages to be funny, erudite and kindly: a rare – and compelling – combination. This is the essential antidote to a culture obsessed with success. Read it
Joe Moran is a brilliant historian, and the most perceptive and original observer of British life that we have. He makes the humdrum riveting
There is an honesty and a clarity in Joe Moran’s book If You Should Fail that normalises and softens the usual blows of life that enables us to accept and live with them rather than be diminished/wounded by them
A fascinating insight. Moran’s honesty is brilliantly raw and uncomfortable at times, but under the apparently bleak message on the surface there is an uplifting truth to be found. For myself, the concept of failure has been redefined
Moran is a wonderful, witty writer
Moran is a past master at producing fine, accessible non-fiction
Joe Moran is a wonderfully sharp writer, calm, precise and quietly comical
I really love Joe Moran’s work, he writes with such generosity and kindness
These stories are beautifully told, and they are comforting at first… Moran’s compassion shines through this gift of a book
A calming antidote to the world of professionally failing… What Moran has created is a slim, lyrical and blessedly cool-headed reflection on failure as a universally shared human trial… What he provides, instead of the mechanical business strategies laid out in some popular failure titles, is a selection of fascinating and often moving lives, characterised in some way by their failure
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