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Eating Glass: The Inner Journey Through Failure and Renewal
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About Eating Glass: The Inner Journey Through Failure And
Product Description “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.” “FAIL FAST, FAIL OFTEN, FAIL FORWARD”... We live in an age that acknowledges the importance of failure and resilience to success. Yet in our rush to bounce back from setbacks, we often miss that the journey through failure and renewal can be a difficult one that plays out over months or years. In this moving memoir, Air Force officer and entrepreneur Mark D. Jacobsen tells the story of his ambitious moonshot effort to use emerging drone technology to break sieges and deliver humanitarian aid in war-torn Syria. Even as his small volunteer team achieved breakthrough successes, cascading challenges brought down the effort and took Mark past the limits of his strength. In the two years that followed, amidst a grueling PhD program and a difficult faith transition, Mark learned to walk failure’s path and find new life on the other side. Eating Glass is a compassionate and profound guide that 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. Review "Raw and real -- Mark tackles some of the toughest but least talked about elements in entrepreneurship and life, in an extraordinarily personal and moving way. To call it insightful would be an understatement; this book puts words to the moments we've all experienced, and you see youself in the pages." --Michael Madrid (USN), Executive Director of The Defense Entrepreneurs Forum "In Eating Glass, Mark Jacobsen reveals, through a compelling personal narrative, the challenges faced and lessons learned along a modern hero's journey. The work is an important contribution to entrepreneurial thought leadership at a critical moment in our individual and cultural evolution as we emerge post COVID-19 different people into a profoundly altered world. It provides its readers an unvarnished insight into a host of elite identities including Ivy League academics, male virility, and our compulsive quest for notions of better and more. But the true value in Mark's work is found in his ability to access his skills as a military officer trained to lead humans through life threatening challenges to individual and cultural liberation. This last bit, he accomplishes brilliantly by providing us with a highly useful roadmap we can use to negotiate the rocky terrain in our individual lives." -- Dr. Paul Hokemeyer, author of Fragile Power: Why Having Everything Is Never Enough
