A Conversation with Costica Bradatan

COSTICA BRADATAN’S In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility (2023) is an unexpected book. It is at once a meditation by a learned historian and philosopher on the vital role failure can and should play in our lives and a prescription, recommending failure-based therapy. Failure is, in short, the tool we need to “wake us up” from the slumber that is our lives.