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Gavin Lamb, PhD

Dec 16, 2020

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‘Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.’

How an enigmatic mantra from the Irish novelist Samuel Beckett offers writers a roadmap for failing forward.

Photo by Dariusz Sankowski on Unsplash

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett

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Gavin Lamb, PhD

Gavin Lamb, PhD

I’m a researcher and writer in ecolinguistics and environmental communication. Get my weekly digest of nature writing ideas/tools: https://wildones.substack.com

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