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The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
Sarah Lewis
Simon & Schuster
March 2014
On Sale: March 4, 2014
ISBN: 1451629230
EAN: 9781451629231
Kindle: B00DPM80AC
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Non-Fiction
It is one of the enduring enigmas of the human experience:
many of our most iconic, creative endeavors—from Nobel
Prize–winning discoveries to entrepreneurial inventions and
works in the arts—are not achievements but conversions,
corrections after failed attempts. The gift of failure is a riddle. Like the number zero, it
will always be both a void and the start of infinite
possibility. The Rise—a soulful celebration of the
determination and courage of the human spirit—makes the case
that many of our greatest triumphs come from understanding
the importance of this mystery. This exquisite biography of an idea is about the improbable
foundations of creative human endeavor. The Rise begins with
narratives about figures past and present who range from
writers to entrepreneurs; Frederick Douglass, Samuel F. B.
Morse, and J. K. Rowling, for example, feature alongside
choreographer Paul Taylor, Nobel Prize–winning physicists
Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, Arctic explorer Ben
Saunders, and psychology professor Angela Duckworth. The Rise explores the inestimable value of often ignored
ideas—the power of surrender for fortitude, the criticality
of play for innovation, the propulsion of the near win on
the road to mastery, and the importance of grit and creative
practice. From an uncommonly insightful writer, The Rise is
a true masterwork.
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