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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A powerful examination of the nature of mistakes, why we make them, the hidden ways they can haunt us, and how surfacing and reckoning with them can help us lead to fuller, more satisfying lives by two powerhouse authors with high-profile, executive experience and vast networks, who…
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1 author picked From Mistakes to Meaning as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As someone who moves between art and analysis, I know how rarely people speak honestly about failure.
Lynton and Steiner do it with grace and zero performance, which is almost unheard of in this genre. I love the restraint of their writing, the way they refuse the easy arc of redemption. I love how they frame mistakes as material rather than wounds, as something to build from.
From Andrea's list on being human in the age of AI.
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