21 fantastic failures and what their stories teach us

By:

Misra, Sonali

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi 2020Description: xii, 185 pISBN:

9789389967517

DDC classification:

155.51 MIS

Summary: An entertaining and practical guidebook for twenty-first century readers. What do Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, Albert Einstein and Amitabh Bachchan have in common? They are all success stories, but they also failed spectacularly. 21 Fantastic Failures brings to you the real-life stories of icons from the fields of business, science, technology, politics, sports, literature, art, film, TV and music, highlighting the points in their lives where each of them failed but, undeterred, decided to pick themselves up and forge ahead. The decisions they made in those moments converted their setbacks into triumphs and etched their names in history.

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Contains chapters on:

Amitabh Bachchan • The Beatles • Richard Branson

Julia Child • Walt Disney • Thomas Edison

Albert Einstein • Lady Gaga • Vincent van Gogh

Steve Jobs • Michael Jordan • Nelson Mandela

Lionel Messi • Elon Musk • Colonel Sanders

Dr. Seuss • Steven Spielberg • Ratan Tata • Vera Wang

Serena Williams • Oprah Winfrey

An entertaining and practical guidebook for twenty-first century readers.

What do Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, Albert Einstein and Amitabh Bachchan have in common?

They are all success stories, but they also failed spectacularly.

21 Fantastic Failures brings to you the real-life stories of icons from the fields of business, science, technology, politics, sports, literature, art, film, TV and music, highlighting the points in their lives where each of them failed but, undeterred, decided to pick themselves up and forge ahead. The decisions they made in those moments converted their setbacks into triumphs and etched their names in history.

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