Moment 23 - Why You Should Embrace Failure: Elizabeth Day

The conversation opens with the host turning to the seven "failure principles" Elizabeth Day sets out in her book, starting with the first one: "failure just is." Day explains that failure is inevitable. In her view it will happen to everyone however hard they try to avoid it. She admits this can feel scary, but argues it can also feel liberating: once failure is accepted as a fact, there is no point in trying to avoid it, "so you might as well take the risk."

Failure is a fact, but how you respond to it is within your control