10 Great Articles & Essays about Success and Failure
Great articles on success and failure -- The best success articles and failure articlesSuccess
What Drives Success? by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld
It may be taboo to say it, but certain ethnic, religious and national-origin groups are doing strikingly better than Americans overallPractice Doesn’t Make Perfect by Maria Konnikova
If some people require fewer hours and some require more to reach an identical point, doesn’t that imply that some individual difference other than practice is at play?You Can Do It, Baby! by Leslie Garrett
Our culture is rich with esteem-boosting platitudes for young dreamers, but the assurances are dishonest and dangerousDon't! by Jonah Lehrer
The secret of self-controlYou Might Be a Late Bloomer by David Brooks
The life secrets of those who flailed early but succeeded by old ageThe Effort Effect by Marina Krakovsky
According to a Stanford psychologist, you'll reach new heights if you learn to embrace the occasional tumbleSurvivorship Bias by David McRaney
When failure becomes invisible, the difference between failure and success may also become invisibleBillionaires Are Not Like Us by Alex Morris
They have fantasies of going to Mars, transhumanism, and superhuman AI. How the heck does someone get this way? And what does it mean for the rest of us?Books
Adapt by Tim Harford
Why success always starts with failureThe Logic Of Failure by Dietrich Dorner
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The Art of Failure by Malcolm Gladwell
Why some people choke and others panicThe Tight Collar by David Dobbs
The New Science of Choking Under PressureWhat if the Secret to Success Is Failure?
by Paul Tough
People who have an easy time of things, who get 800s on their SAT's, I worry that those people get feedback that everything they're doing is great. And I think as a result, we are actually setting them up for long-term failure...
Be Wrong as Fast as You Can by Hugo Lindgren
"Hugo has the gift of a rich, active imagination, but needs to work on his follow-through skills..."The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination by J.K. Rowling
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