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America’s most trusted leadership expert will transform your attitude and belief about failure and empower you to make positive changes in your life to achieve your full potential. Are some people born to achieve anything they want while others struggle? Call them lucky, blessed, or possessors of the Midas touch. What is the real reason for their success? Is it family background, wealth, greater opportunities, high morals, an easy childhood? New York Times best-selling author John C. Maxwell has the answer: The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. Most people are never prepared to deal with failure. Maxwell says that if you are like him, coming out of school, you feared it, misunderstood it, and ran away from it. But Maxwell has learned to make failure his friend, and he can teach you to do the same. want to help you learn how to confidently look the prospect of failure in the eye and move forward anyway, says Maxwell. Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!

Turning to philosophers, historians, politicians and artists, De Botton examines where our anxieties about success and status originate. the hardback edition has spent two and a half months in the )Sunday Times( top five bestseller list, selling over 50,000 copies. This paperback edition will have huge publicity, including nationwide events and features. De Botton has taken philosophy back to its simplest and most important purpose: helping us live our lives )Independent(In Status Anxiety, Bestselling author Alain de Botton sets out to understand our universal fear of failure – and how we might change. We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer – to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassment – from status anxiety. For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to this universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions. He looks at history, philosophy, economics, art and politics – and reveals the many ingenious ways that great minds have overcome their worries. the result is a book that is not only entertaining and thought-provoking – but genuinely wise and helpful as well. Clever, wise. De Bottons gift is to prompt us to think about how we live and how we might change things the TimesDe Botton analyses modern society with great charm, learning and humour. His remedies come as a welcome relief when most books offering solutions to the stresses of life recommend the lotus position Daily MailMeasured, amused, compassionate . . . de Botton is a surefooted discoverer of the pungent but less well known quote Daily TelegraphA purveyor of serious buy playful manuals for living GQTurned me into a fan, for its range, insight, wit and sheer usefulness Daily Express

While a few people appear to be born leaders, the ability to lead is actually a collection of skills, nearly all of which can be learned and sharpened. Based on his New York Times bestseller The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, author John C. Maxwell presents a daily plan to help you grow as a leader in your personal, professional, and spiritual life.

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