Jessica Lahey
American educator and author of The Gift of Failure
Jessica Lahey (American educator and author of The Gift of Failure) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Failure and resilience, The Gift of Failure.
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Failure and resilience
Lahey attributes her later success not to talent but to humility in learning from criticism.
“So it's not that I'm a great writer. It's that I was humble enough to say, teach me how to be better”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #881: Tales of Overcoming The Odds, and How to Turn Losses Into Wins — Tim McGraw, Terry Crews, Dax Shepard, and More (Sep 4, 2026) · Listen from 29:40
The Gift of Failure
Jessica Lahey recounts that her editor declared her first draft of The Gift of Failure unpublishable.
“what she said was this. It still makes me want to throw up. She said, this book is unpublishable”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #881: Tales of Overcoming The Odds, and How to Turn Losses Into Wins — Tim McGraw, Terry Crews, Dax Shepard, and More (Sep 4, 2026) · Listen from 28:41
Appearances
#881: Tales of Overcoming The Odds, and How to Turn Losses Into Wins — Tim McGraw, Terry Crews, Dax Shepard, and MoreThe Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 4, 2026 · 1 h 5 min
Tim Ferriss compiles past interviews in which BJ Miller, Terry Crews, Tim McGraw, Dax Shepard, Cathy Lanier, Janna Levin and others describe turning setbacks into later success.
Often appears with
- Tim Ferriss · 1 shared episode
- BJ Miller · 1 shared episode
- Terry Crews · 1 shared episode
- Tim McGraw · 1 shared episode
- Dax Shepard · 1 shared episode
- Cathy Lanier · 1 shared episode
- Janna Levin · 1 shared episode
- Boyd Varty · 1 shared episode