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Daily Inspiration: "Every failure is in reality a critical step in a successful reinvention!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
It’s book week! Each day, a post involving one of my books! Today, my biggest book failure!
Life is sometimes full of wild success punctuated by staggering failure. In that context, let's take a look a look at my biggest book failure - I think it has sold, what, maybe 10 copies? (That's a bit of an understatement, but I can assure you that the sales numbers are less than overwhelming.)
Released at the tail-end of the global pandemic, Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future, is probably my biggest book failure, and yet to me, is a remarkable success. That's because, in my mind, the very action of writing the book clarified in my mind some valuable lessons, many of which have made their way into my stage presentations and other material. You can find the book at my site at
https://books.jimcarroll.com or on Amazon.
The book itself? it comes at an interesting time in the publishing industry - quite simply, in the last few years, the market for many types of books has evaporated with the collapse of attention spans and the dominance of short content.
The book discusses the stories of individuals who faced challenges and reinvented themselves through the pandemic, or earlier than that - all of whom I knew before or met during the global lockdown. They discovered new careers, new opportunities, or new skills - some sort of reinvention from who they were into who they could become. It was based on a series of interviews I did from my virtual broadcast studio during lockdown - and those interviews are still available at
https://reinvention.jimcarroll.com.
In but 140 pages, it covers a remarkable amount of ground as to how to reinvent your personal life, career or business.
Original post:
https://jimcarroll.com/2024/03/daily-inspiration-skills-reinvention-every-failure-is-in-reality-a-critical-step-in-a-successful-reinvention/ 
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