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A comic meditation on a universal human experience: crushing, abject humiliating failure. The book takes a tour of failures ranging from a doomed British expedition to climb Everest, to Elisha Gray, the inventor of the telephone who failed to patent his invention before Bell.
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t these fond hopes for blissful love, professional glory, fame, and fortune. But in the back of your mind there's that nagging fear. The man of your dreams will laugh in your face. Your hated office rival will come up with some whizbang marketing idea and get promoted, while you'll be asked to "help out with the phones." Steven Spielberg will buy the rights to your screenplay, spend $40 million producing it, and the critics will savage the film, mercilessly singling out your work for especially contemptuous, poisonous derision. But hey, everybody fails sometime. It's inevitable. So don't fear failure. Embrace it. In Complete And Utter Failure, Neil Steinberg joyfully explores the many fascinating facets of failure, from pointless failure (a brief history of several very dumb attempt
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Complete and Utter Failure : A Celebration of Also-Rans, Runners-Up, Never-Weres and Total Flops
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