Megan McArdle Shares Keys To Success After Failure
Last night, economics, business, and public policy writer Megan McArdle spoke about her new book The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success at Sixth & I in partnership with Politics & Prose. McArdle started out by sharing a personal experience of her 2 years of unemployment following business school.
“I really was extremely miserable,” she said. “Being unemployed is about the worst thing that can happen to you.”
Citing research from Germany, where citizens are offered lavish benefits, McArdle said that “after people are widowed, they get sad but then they habituate and five years later they are about as happy as they were before.
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