Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2025-05-21
Books mentioned on How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency (Update)
Everyone makes mistakes. How do we learn from them?
Mentioned: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker and Living Your Dying by Stanley Keleman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning philosophical and psychological study that argues human behavior is fundamentally driven by an unconscious terror of mortality and the subsequent cultural mechanisms created to deny it.
Discussed“I really think I'm an intellectual granddaughter of Ernest Becker who famously wrote the denial of death.”
Where to get it
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Living Your Dying
Living Your Dying by Stanley Keleman is a psychological and somatic exploration of human development, mortality, and the ways individuals navigate personal transformation and the physical realities of life.
Discussed“I really think I’m an intellectual granddaughter of Ernest Becker, who famously wrote 'The Denial of Death.'”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Right Kind of Wrong
“Throughout this series, we've been speaking with Amy Edmonson, a scholar of failure at the Harvard Business School.”