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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.

Gavin Lamb, PhD
The Startup
Published in
8 min readDec 16, 2020

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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
The Startup

Written by Gavin Lamb, PhD

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

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