How to learn from setbacks

Readers should pay heed to the chapter in which Mr Erikson spells out the four stages through which one passes when trying to learn something new

Surrounded by setbacks: Or, how to succeed when everything’s going bad

Author: Thomas Erikson

Publisher:  Vermilion/Penguin

Pages: 326

Price: Rs 599

Before a reader picks up this book, he is likely to ask, and justifiably so, what qualifies the writer to proffer advice on handling setbacks. Has he handled any himself? Plenty, it seems.   

As Thomas Erikson recounts, he wrote books and sent them to publishers. For 20 long years, all he had to show for the 1,000 hours he put in each year was rejection letters by the score. And yet he stuck with it, until he made it through what he calls the