Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better: Wise Advice for Leaning into the Unknown

When her granddaughter was accepted to Naropa University, the celebrated author Pema Chödrön promised that she'd speak at the commencement ceremony.

Fail, Fail Again, Fail Bettercontains the wisdom shared on that day.

“What do we do when life doesn't go the way we hoped?” begins Pema. “We say `I'm a failure.'"

But what if failing wasn't just “okay” . . . but the most direct way to becoming a more complete, loving, and fulfilled human being?

Here, Pema Chödrön offers us her heartfelt advic...