Since 2016, a Shanghai Magazine of Global Culture
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Fail, Always by Irving Goh
FEATUREDWhile many working in the burgeoning field of failure studies tend to focus on failure as a path to eventual success, Goh instead proposes that it would also be useful to focus on failure as failure.
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