The Way of Failure
Winning Through Losing

This straight-talking and strongly inspirational book looks failure directly in the face, unmasking it for what it really is. “Our so-called failures may not be failures at all,” Caplan writes. “In fact, they may be transformed into our greatest successes.”

Mariana Caplan tells us to how to meet failure on its own field, how to learn its twists and turns, its illusions and its realities. Only then, she advises, is one equipped to engage failure as a means of ultimate “winning,” and in a way that far exceeds our culturally-defined visions of success. This book offers a direct means of using failure for profound self-understanding, for increased compassion for self and others, and even for significant spiritual development.

Instead of speaking to where we “should be,” this book looks to our lives as they are now, realistically¾since everybody has experienced failure in big or small ways at some time or another in life. And while it deals with a subject that most people would consider negative or depressing, the book is actually highly inspirational, giving us permission to find joy and contentment within failure.



The Way of Failure covers many aspects of the subject, including:
· the failure of ordinary love
· the failure of conventional happiness
· the failure of worldly success
· the failure of ideas and philosophy
· the failure of security
· the failure of meaning
· and ultimately, the failure of failure