091: The Celebration of Failure

Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy

David Burns, MD

Clinical, Therapy, Anxiety, Psychotherapy, Depression, Health & Fitness, Cognitive, Mentalhealth, Mental Health, Behavior, Education, Self-improvement, Psychology, Relationships, Addiction, Happiness, Personalgrowth

4.4 • 856 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

I had a magical fantasies of what would happen once I was an “author.” The reality was quite the opposite and quite painful, with almost endless rejections accompanied by feelings of self-pity and defeat. For example, soon after publication, I learned my book was at the top of my publisher's "loser list." Then I discovered that magazines, newspapers, and TV and radio shows had no interest in it whatsoever.

I hope you enjoy the story. It’s all about the celebration of failure and the conversion of failure into success.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Feeling Good podcast.
0:12.4	I am your host, Fabrice Nye.
0:14.7	And joining me here in the Murrieta Studios is Dr. David Burns.
0:19.0	Hi, David.
0:20.0	Hi, Fabrice.
0:23.8	Dr. David Burns has been a pioneer in the development of cognitive therapy, and he is the creator of the new team therapy. He is the author of
0:30.2	Feeling Good, which has sold over 5 million copies in the United States, and has been translated into
0:35.5	over 20 languages. He is an emeritus adjunct clinical professor
0:40.0	of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Welcome to episode 91 of the
0:46.0	Feeling Good podcast. Last week, David, we rebroadcast this interview by Roy Germano, where you talked about how you published your
0:58.3	book Feeling Good, and you have an even more interesting, if not, at least as interesting
1:07.8	story about how you went from the publishing, where the book was kind of lingering for a while
1:13.2	until it became a success.
1:16.8	And that took a while.
1:18.5	And you have quite a bit of stories to tell about this,
1:23.2	how you went from lingering to success,
1:26.2	and how you kind of overcame the hurdles including the
1:30.6	psychological hurdles and so can you tell us about this yeah it came up actually last night i was
1:36.8	a dinner a birthday dinner for someone in our tuesday training group mariam who's a lovely
1:43.4	woman originally from Iran.
1:48.1	And as we were sitting at dinner, someone said, well, tell us, you know, how your book
1:55.2	became a bestseller, what was that experience like?
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