Rethink Failure

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We asked people to write about their failures. Most said no. A few laughed. Eighteen said yes, and wrote about a bank collapse, a lost championship, a restaurant that closed two days before Christmas.

These brave authors invite you to rethink everything you “know” about failure.

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What if you walked back to the moment you spent years trying to walk out of? And stayed there long enough to describe the furniture?

These are the stories we don’t plan on publishing. The real ones, the ones that made us.

The stories

Eighteen people, eighteen stories. Here’s where each one starts. The full chapters live only in the book.

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Say the F‑word with confidence.

The moments that undo us are often the ones that finally show us who we are, and what we’re capable of becoming.

Rethink Everything You “Know” About Failure gathers eighteen entrepreneurs, executives, educators and entertainers on their failures, personal and professional, and what they found on the other side.

Buy the book on Amazon On sale the week of November 16, 2026

By Dory Ellis Garfinkle & Natalie Silverman, with contributing authors

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