How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong

by Elizabeth Day

I have evolved more as a result of things going wrong than when everything seemed to be going right. Out of crisis has come clarity, and sometimes even catharsis.

In adulthood, no one gives you marks for getting the answer right.

And that’s what depression is. And people think that it’s a mood, and it’s not, it’s something else. It has nothing to do with your surroundings, in that you could have everything, but you could still feel like that.