Sarah Lewis

Looks at creativity and mastery in the arts, science, and business, as well as the sometimes surprising ways that they are achieved through serendipity, failure, simple determination, and hard work.

Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

The Rise

Nelson Zagalo

I resisted to read this, because of the title and the cover, it made me think it was more of a new age book, spreading mantras for good creative vibes. However after some citations here and there, I gave up and bought it. How can I say that I'm repented as hell?!

The central idea is great. Discuss in depth, failure, what it is, what it means, what it represents and what it can do for us, and our creativity. The problem is that we don't know very well how to conceptualise it, this is clearly tacit knowledge, that we're still trying to find about. That's why I give 2 starts, because the subject is really hard. The problem is when you write a book on this kind of subject, without constructing a framework, without constructing a goal for it. When you spend pages after pages, citing or referencing cases and cases, but you never build from them, you never really deliver any message that goes beyond what we know from reading the summary.

The Rise Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

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