In this Majority Report clip, H. Jon Benjamin on his new book, "Failure Is An Option."
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"NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with H. Jon Benjamin about his new book, Failure Is An Option. The memoir urges us to let go of the constant grind towards success."
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BENJAMIN: There are elements of memoir, but I would not call it a traditional memoir. I did go back into my personal history, but there's a lot of other sort of forays into comedy bits. And, you know, I think the personal stories that I tell in my life I think sort of do add up to say that you can fail and fail and fail again and continue to move forward. And it's not a prescription for success at the end of that - not a rainbow I guess but a dark cloud. But I hope for the best for the reader."*
Read more here: https://www.npr.org/2018/05/02/607817990/failure-is-an-option-urges-people-to-let-go-of-the-constant-grind-towards-succes
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