The grammar of failure

Planning for the year ahead

Dear readers,

Yesterday we had our salon on ‘Setting Your Goals for 2024’. The Salon served as a great platform for all the attendees to reflect on the year gone by and plan for the adventure head. Amongst the various themes, ideas and exercises, something that stuck a cord with many was the ‘grammar of failure’. Today’s newsletter is a deep dive into this idea and how you might be able to use this to design your new year’s resolution.

Before we get started, here are some of the upcoming salons and fellowships

1. Dec 20 | Salon: Modern Love, Friendship and “Workism”

2. Dec 23 | Salon: Getting your first draft ready

3. The Career Transition Fellowship

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In the lexicon of setbacks, the subject of failure takes center stage—an endeavor, a relationship, a personal ambition. This subject, when subjected to the verbs of action, unfolds a story marked by attempts and endeavors. Yet, this narrative is not one-dimensional. It is the conjunctions that add depth, where the "buts" and "yets" introduce a complex syntax that delineates the contours of our struggles.