Setting the scene
Purpose of the paper
Using a Samuel Beckett quotation in the title perhaps sets expectations too high, but this paper has lofty aims – no less than to challenge our attitudes to failure and reframe our experience of it.
The following pages share the positive role failure has played within my life – to explore failure within a single career. A number of anecdotes will be shared, which demonstrate that failure should not be seen as something to simply 'get through' and survive – it can bring rewards that shallow success never can!
It is an important...