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Eating Glass: The Inner Journey Through Failure and Renewal

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“Even as we celebrate what we have achieved, applaud ourselves for daring greatly, and shrug off failure, we are dying inside. Because nobody has really, honestly told us what failure feels like, and the truth is, it is terrifying and it is lonely and it hurts like hell.”

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“FAIL FAST, FAIL OFTEN, FAIL FORWARD”… We live in an age that acknowledges the importance of failure to success. Yet our relentless focus on success can leave us ill-prepared for the trauma, grief, and confusion that can accompany failure, whether in business, relationships, or life.

We all have experiences that shatter our sense of self and leave us gasping to breathe. The aftermaths of these experiences are rich seasons in which we can experience tremendous personal flourishing, but few of us are prepared for them or have trustworthy guides.

In Eating Glass, Air Force officer, Stanford PhD, and serial entrepreneur Mark D. Jacobsen has written a compassionate and practical guide to navigating these seasons. Drawing on his own experiences—including a failed humanitarian nonprofit and a grueling PhD process—he guides readers through four stages: failure, aftermath, healing, and renewal. With unflinching honesty and a consistently redemptive spirit, he names the thoughts and feelings we all experience in these seasons, giving readers permission to embrace their own stories.

Eating Glass will speak to any dreamer or achiever who is navigating the aftermath of a failure experience. It provides steady assurance that we are never alone in our journeys, and that our seasons of failure are fertile times in which we grow.

Table of Contents

(and additional samples)

Preface [mp3]

Introduction [mp3]

PART I: MY JOURNEY

War Rooms [mp3]

Inspiration [mp3]

Rise [mp3]

Apex [mp3]

Fall [mp3]

Crash

Embers

Renewal

PART II: FAILING

The First Step [mp3]

Vertigo [mp3]

Ideas

Quitting

Loneliness [mp3]

Impostor Syndrome [mp3]

Doubt

Weakness

Burnout

PART III: AFTERMATH

Over [mp3]

Has-Been [mp3]

Anger [mp3]

Hurt

Sharing

Aftershocks

False Starts

Wilderness

PART IV: HEALING

Hill Climb [mp3]

Beginning [mp3]

Health

Play [mp3]

Friendship

Faith

Scars [mp3]

Waiting

PART V: RENEWAL

Reinvention [mp3]

Freedom

Courage [mp3]

Priorities

Boundaries

Gratitude

Perspective

Love

Afterword

Readings

 

In each video, I read a complete chapter of the book.

Podcasts and Interviews

 

Minimum Viable Podcast, April 29, 2021

Always in Pursuit, August 28, 2021

CFO Bookshelf, August 30, 2021

Background on The Syria Airlift Project

 

For those who want to learn more about the nonprofit effort described in the book, here are a few artifacts from that time.

BBC coverage of the Syria Airlift Project (2015)

Uplift Aeronautics Fundraising Video (2015)

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