

Fail Better with David Duchovny
Lemonada Media
To be human is to fail – period. And not just to fail once, but to fail a lot. As the author Samuel Beckett said: “Fail again. Fail better.” This saying means a lot to me and my family – so much so that my daughter got a tattoo of it. Why are we, and so many others, so deeply concerned by failure? And if it’s something we all do so often, why are we so afraid of it – especially those of us here in win-at-all-costs America? In this podcast, I sit down with successful, thoughtful people like Ben Stiller, Bette Midler, Sean Penn and more to talk about failure – or what they labeled “failure,” but what was really an unparalleled opportunity for growth and revelation. I even want to delve into my own hardest moments, when I wrestled with setbacks, shame, and fear. We’ll still fail again. And again. But maybe if we fail better, we’ll feel better -- and maybe if we can all laugh together in failure, that's a start.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Fail Better with David Duchovny podcast:

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Who Could Ever Love You?
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Too Much and Never Enough
How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

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Power Money Fame Sex

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The life you can save
How to Play Your Part in Ending World Poverty
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The Seminarian

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The Official Preppy Handbook

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When the Going was Good

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Pushing Time Away

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The expanding circle
Ethics and Sociobiology

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Fame

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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
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Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill

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The principles of psychology

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The Queer Art of Failure

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What We Owe the Future
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Hear the Wind Sing

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Want
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The driver

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