Review of An Interview with Failure

[Anaïs Quesson]

[Following is a volunteer review of "An Interview with Failure" by Sam Yankelevitch.]

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5 out of 5 stars

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"It's your choice, if you want to stop walking in the shadow of other people's words."

An Interview with Failure by Sam Yankelevitch is an insightful novel that will for sure shake your views on life.

Robin Finch runs a podcast called Wake Up and Leap Forward. In this special episode, he invites Failure for an interview. Together, they break the fear of Failure's name down to the root.
The interview is divided into eleven parts. Each part has valuable advice for the reader/listener, blended with humor and relatability. Each teaching is focused on positivity and learning from your mistakes. Failure is not something to be afraid of, it is only a word. It is also not necessarily the opposite of success. Words can have any meaning, so choose the ones that are the most helpful to you.
The most important teaching I will keep after reading this book is probably that mistakes are opportunities to move forward and improve at each milestone. Overall I loved the positivity and optimism of Yankelevitch's story-telling.

The writing style was slightly confusing at first. Indeed, the whole book is written just as a podcast script. Robin and Failure talk with each other, there is no narration whatsoever. The only distinction between the two characters is that Failure's lines are written in bold print.
Once you get used to it, however, you can fully appreciate all the advice and insights Yankelevitch has to offer. The shortness of this book (only 80 pages) and this unique writing style make it easy and fast to read. It is both relatable and unique. If, like me, you read with a little voice inside of your head, it will just feel as if you were listening to Robin's podcast.
The punctuation is sometimes over-used, some sentences could have easily been shortened. However, I did not notice any grammatical errors and I can say that this book was professionally edited.

To conclude, I rate this book 5 out of 5 stars.
I might have disliked the writing style at first, but I couldn't help but finish it in only a few days. It has taught me a lot and I will try to reuse Yankelevitch's advice in my daily life.
This book will shift your way of thinking about success and failure. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

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An Interview with Failure
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[Rabia Qanit]

I agree that mistakes are only opportunities to move forward. I love the way you have categorized the stages of the interview to make it clear to the readers. I wonder what could be so important in this book that could change our way of thinking. I love being curious about important and worthwhile books. I love your review, Anais, and I will definitely try the book.

[Anaïs Quesson]

I agree that mistakes are only opportunities to move forward. I love the way you have categorized the stages of the interview to make it clear to the readers. I wonder what could be so important in this book that could change our way of thinking. I love being curious about important and worthwhile books. I love your review, Anais, and I will definitely try the book.

Thank you for your kind comment Sahoor. I hope you will enjoy this book!

[Anaïs Quesson]

I agree that mistakes are only opportunities to move forward. I love the way you have categorized the stages of the interview to make it clear to the readers. I wonder what could be so important in this book that could change our way of thinking. I love being curious about important and worthwhile books. I love your review, Anais, and I will definitely try the book.

Thank you for your kind comment Sahoor. I hope you will enjoy this book!

[The Keeper Jr]

Great review. It is definitely true that mistakes lead to success. I hope the podcast could be found online so I could watch or listen to it as well. It can be benefitial in many cases. I liked your thoughts on this review anais. Thank you!

[Anaïs Quesson]

Great review. It is definitely true that mistakes lead to success. I hope the podcast could be found online so I could watch or listen to it as well. It can be benefitial in many cases. I liked your thoughts on this review anais. Thank you!

Thank you Yes I agree with you, it's too bad this isn't a real podcast. I also would have loved a series of interviews like this one, with other concepts like Love, Jealousy, or Fear.

[Sarah Zain]

The topic is wonderful to discuss. The definition of success and failure is always in question. It is good to have a book that deals with this topic well. A wonderful and detailed review anais, I loved reading it.

[Anu Anand]

I really enjoyed reading your wonderful review. The way you describe the book, it seems quite interesting. I also appreciate the format where the author imparts life lessons through an interview style. The message of embracing failure as a stepping stone is indeed valuable.

[Jane Ogwang]

Sounds like a very insightful and helpful read. Thank you for this detailed recommendation.

[Cara Wilding]

[Following is a volunteer review of "An Interview with Failure" by Sam Yankelevitch.]

The writing style was slightly confusing at first. Indeed, the whole book is written just as a podcast script. Robin and Failure talk with each other, there is no narration whatsoever. The only distinction between the two characters is that Failure's lines are written in bold print.
Once you get used to it, however, you can fully appreciate all the advice and insights Yankelevitch has to offer. The shortness of this book (only 80 pages) and this unique writing style make it easy and fast to read. It is both relatable and unique. If, like me, you read with a little voice inside of your head, it will just feel as if you were listening to Robin's podcast.
The punctuation is sometimes over-used, some sentences could have easily been shortened. However, I did not notice any grammatical errors and I can say that this book was professionally edited.

Anais, looks like we have some similar tastes in books! This sounded like such an interesting read - I'm intrigued about the writing style you mention. It's different by most standards, which makes it unique, and I do love seeing/hearing new ways of doing things! I also really liked the "idea" of talking to failure and your point that failure is just a word. Funny, I think we all fear failure to some degree - so this makes for a book that can be appreciated by many.

I totally read with a litte voice inmy head! I read somewhere a while back that not everyone has these "internal monologue voices" and I my mind was blown! Great job providing the inspiration to get others reading this one!

[Gerry Steen]

[Following is a volunteer review of "An Interview with Failure" by Sam Yankelevitch.]

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5 out of 5 stars

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"It's your choice, if you want to stop walking in the shadow of other people's words."

An Interview with Failure by Sam Yankelevitch is an insightful novel that will for sure shake your views on life.

Robin Finch runs a podcast called Wake Up and Leap Forward. In this special episode, he invites Failure for an interview. Together, they break the fear of Failure's name down to the root.
The interview is divided into eleven parts. Each part has valuable advice for the reader/listener, blended with humor and relatability. Each teaching is focused on positivity and learning from your mistakes. Failure is not something to be afraid of, it is only a word. It is also not necessarily the opposite of success. Words can have any meaning, so choose the ones that are the most helpful to you.
The most important teaching I will keep after reading this book is probably that mistakes are opportunities to move forward and improve at each milestone. Overall I loved the positivity and optimism of Yankelevitch's story-telling.

The writing style was slightly confusing at first. Indeed, the whole book is written just as a podcast script. Robin and Failure talk with each other, there is no narration whatsoever. The only distinction between the two characters is that Failure's lines are written in bold print.
Once you get used to it, however, you can fully appreciate all the advice and insights Yankelevitch has to offer. The shortness of this book (only 80 pages) and this unique writing style make it easy and fast to read. It is both relatable and unique. If, like me, you read with a little voice inside of your head, it will just feel as if you were listening to Robin's podcast.
The punctuation is sometimes over-used, some sentences could have easily been shortened. However, I did not notice any grammatical errors and I can say that this book was professionally edited.

To conclude, I rate this book 5 out of 5 stars.
I might have disliked the writing style at first, but I couldn't help but finish it in only a few days. It has taught me a lot and I will try to reuse Yankelevitch's advice in my daily life.
This book will shift your way of thinking about success and failure. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

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An Interview with Failure
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon

I gather from your review, that anyone who lets the fear of failure keep them from reaching their goals needs to read this book. I like that you learned that "mistakes are opportunities to move forward and improve at each milestone." Yankelevitch will reach and inspire many people with this book of discussion with Failure. Great review!

[Stephen Christopher 1]

Fear of failure is legit, I can see that this book will cater to a broad audience, once they settle into the podcast format of the book.

[ZCReviews]

I really enjoyed reading your breakdown of the book's content. The structure of the book sounds very creative, and I also like the central message about failure. It's something to always keep in mind, but during moments of failure, it's hard not to be hard on oneself. I would like to read this book to see what else the author says.

[Kshitija Sonawane]

Failure does get a bad name. Should we fear it? No. However, I feel like it is okay to despise it because it robs us of things, it destroys plans and so many things. This book would be an interesting read though.

[Following is a volunteer review of "An Interview with Failure" by Sam Yankelevitch.]

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5 out of 5 stars

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"It's your choice, if you want to stop walking in the shadow of other people's words."

An Interview with Failure by Sam Yankelevitch is an insightful novel that will for sure shake your views on life.

Robin Finch runs a podcast called Wake Up and Leap Forward. In this special episode, he invites Failure for an interview. Together, they break the fear of Failure's name down to the root.
The interview is divided into eleven parts. Each part has valuable advice for the reader/listener, blended with humor and relatability. Each teaching is focused on positivity and learning from your mistakes. Failure is not something to be afraid of, it is only a word. It is also not necessarily the opposite of success. Words can have any meaning, so choose the ones that are the most helpful to you.
The most important teaching I will keep after reading this book is probably that mistakes are opportunities to move forward and improve at each milestone. Overall I loved the positivity and optimism of Yankelevitch's story-telling.

The writing style was slightly confusing at first. Indeed, the whole book is written just as a podcast script. Robin and Failure talk with each other, there is no narration whatsoever. The only distinction between the two characters is that Failure's lines are written in bold print.
Once you get used to it, however, you can fully appreciate all the advice and insights Yankelevitch has to offer. The shortness of this book (only 80 pages) and this unique writing style make it easy and fast to read. It is both relatable and unique. If, like me, you read with a little voice inside of your head, it will just feel as if you were listening to Robin's podcast.
The punctuation is sometimes over-used, some sentences could have easily been shortened. However, I did not notice any grammatical errors and I can say that this book was professionally edited.

To conclude, I rate this book 5 out of 5 stars.
I might have disliked the writing style at first, but I couldn't help but finish it in only a few days. It has taught me a lot and I will try to reuse Yankelevitch's advice in my daily life.
This book will shift your way of thinking about success and failure. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

******
An Interview with Failure
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon