The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery Hardcover – March 4, 2014

One of my top 10 books!A great way of explaining failure, success, and how conventional norms just tell us to suck up failure on our way to success but Sarah Lewis really does a phenomenal job of explaining the childish wanderlust and enthusiasm that many of the world's innovators and discoveries had when they were changing the world.Her stories, concepts and analogies were definitely amazing to read! Her educational background does not fail her in this book!!!!!Already recommended the book to a few friends!

Well documented and beautifully written review of how we learn from our mistakes (failures). I could not read this book without a pen in hand to note my insights and aha moments! Thank you Sarah Lewis for this book that will endure for the ages!!

A very thought provoking series of essays causing us to rethink our understanding of and appreciation for failure and the potential to learn and grow anew after failures. Certainly "true grit" serves us well as we renew and revive our pursuits, professions and passions. All can create new opportunities for our world.

In this expansive exploration of the benefits of failure, Lewis takes us on a journey of the deeper layers of wisdom contained within creative endeavor. With nuanced examples of almost forgotten historical figures, as well as current key players, she illuminates a brilliant landscape of failure as a foundation for success.

This book offered more than I expected it to. The author wrote about aspects of the human spirit that is rarely covered in other books I've read. I have a new appreciation for the experience of failure, the gifts that it offers, and the importance of looking at and seeing its positive power. And this book is so much more than that!

Very enjoyable, much the way I work, with a happy thought and looking for fun and good things to happen while I work, always looking for the odd juxtaposition and something that makes me laugh or at least smile. Excellent reading. Thanks for asking

I read many great reviews of this book and having read hundreds of self-help and inspirational books as well as a number on mastery, innovation and creativity, I was expecting something really good. I was disapointed. She tells some good stories but tends to ramble on and not stay on point. The literary style of her writing might work well in a novel but I found it distracting in this type of book where one generally wants to get to the point and move on to the next in a more or less robust manner. I found mysel reading and re-reading long tangled sentences that didn't seem to quite nail down what she wanted to say but danced around it. Literary and artistic -- yes. Direct and succinct -- no. Nothing in the content is new or original, nor does she bring any of her own experience into the book which might have saved it from the blandness -- maybe because she doesn't have any. She's gone to school a lot is the only thing I can tell from her biography. She clearly did a lot of research and all that data might have overwhelmed the clear line of thought one has to hold to write a really good book, as well as the heart required to connect with the reader. She writes like a very bright school girl and not like someone who has had any real experience with the subject she chose. Not bad, but a book on overcoming failure, gaining mastery, and living a truly creative life needs an author who has lived it, at least to some extent, and not just gathered pretty stories to thread together.

This book gives you a beginning no matter where you are in you life’s journey. This was a gift to my nineteen year old granddaughter

I read this book as part of an education group reading circle. It spoke to me as an educator, as a parent and as a human. Dr. Lewis writing is compelling and every page revealed to me another perspective worth considering. I had to stop reading several times to re-read and digest her words.

This was a great read for someone at their own personal crossroads. Great interviews and information on what grit and play really mean.

interessantes buch, viele spannende beispiele, gute tipps.. und so clever geschrieben! für kreative leute eine definitive empfehlung! auch schön um immer wieder rein zu schauen

I loved this book. Feels unique. Mastery over success

Good read!