Nicklas Jarnesjö &
How to Fail by Elizabeth Day

I don’t know whether I just have a thing for self-help memoirs written by British female authors (Emily Dean’s “Everybody died, so I got a dog” might be my favourite book of 2019) but I loved this book. Her lessons of being honest to yourself about your failure and showing this is refreshing in a world where we are constantly on the hunt for perfection. Refreshing, motivating and funny, highly recommend.

This is a collection of life lessons the author has learned all around the theme of failure. I definitely struggle with my reaction to failure or feel like I am a failure when really I’m not, that’s just the way life is. While this book didn’t “totally change my life” I did enjoy reading it and found a few helpful things inside. The chapter about failing at your twenties really resonates with me as I feel like in this decade we’re supposed to be care free new adults and put together adults at the same time. . While I don’t have children nor have a tried to have any yet, I feel like all women can relate to the failing at babies. All of society tells us this is our one job and if we choose not to do it or biologically can’t, we feel as though we aren’t ‘woman enough’. . . I know that she has a podcast and I’m excited to have a listen to that. Do you struggle with failure? How do you emotionally respond to failing at something? .