Song of the Phoenix: The Hidden Rewards of Failure - Hardcover

Lord, John; Wold, Jeffery

9780936399157: Song of the Phoenix: The Hidden Rewards of Failure

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0936399155 ISBN 13: 9780936399157

Publisher: Berkshire House Pub, 1992

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Shows what can be learned through the inevitable failures of life

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According to a recent Newsweek cover story, the latest national elixir for negative feelings is greater self-esteem. Lord, co-director for The Life Project, a center for failure experience workshops, offers this book on the rewards of failure. Having become a quasi-expert on the subject through his own string of personal failures, Lord attempts to convince readers that success and failure are relative terms, and that "restoration of a positive self-image" is all that is needed to overcome any feelings of defeat or guilt. Bad judgment, inexperience, or stupidity are not to be blamed. Numerous stories of failure and end-of-chapter exercises comprise much of the text. Although the ideas presented may cheer some readers depressed over their failures, the book's rambling style, repetitious prose, and quick-fixes will be unappealing to most. A marginal purchase.
-Ilse Heidmann Ali, formerly with Motlow State Community Coll., Tullahoma, Tenn.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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