It seems that some people are born to achieve anything they want. Some would say they are blessed, or have the Midas touch.

Maxwell says that if you are like him, you were never prepared to deal with failure. Coming out of school, he feared it, misunderstood it, and ran away from it. But he's ;earned to make failure his friend, and he can teach you to do the same.

One business peridical stated that the high rates of suicide, substance abuse, and nervous breakdowns could be attributed to people's desire to train for success when they should train for failure. Failing Forward is the course on overcoming failure that you never received in school.

With Maxwell's trademark warmth and humor, he teaches straighforward principles for overcoming failure and gives fifteen solid steps to help you become the kind of achiever you've always anted to be ,

* Master fear instead of being mastered by it.

* Break out of the ruts that keep people failing

* Learn a simple strategy to success after experiencing a major setback.