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Yellow planner with spiral binding on a white background
2026-2027 Academic Diary - Ochre Yellow
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Silver pocket pen with Papersmiths logo

Pocket Pen - Raw Steel

£7.00

Maroon pencil with silver and gold accents on a white background

Pocket Pencil - Mulberry Red

£6.00

School of Life on Failure
On Failure self help book
On Failure Book Contents
On Failure hardback books
Book on Failure
On failure book spread
on failure back cover

On Failure

School of Life

£11.50
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A reassuring guide on how to overcome failure, teaching us that we can learn to fail well.

This is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure. Our societies talk a lot about success, but the reality is that no one gets through life without failing – in small and usually also in large ways. Sometimes our failures are very obvious, at other times, we feel we have to conceal them out of shame. This book encourages us to accept the role that failure plays for all of us and to feel compassion for ourselves for the messes we can’t help but make as we go through our lives.
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Things that make you wonder why nobody thought of them sooner

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Notebook bands, clips, sharpeners, rulers and handy extras

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