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Failure: The Blog 
February 2012
January 2012
- Offensive Advertising, Increased Sales?
- I Sold Out For Millions, Then Worked At McDonald's
- Steve Jobs on Failure
- The Famous Western Failure
- Thank Goodness for Drug Addicts
December 2011
- It's a Wonderful Failure
- Stadium Destroyed, Reborn
- Failure to Trust the Astronauts
- Failure and the Baggy Pants Tradition
- Failure at The Happiest Place on Earth
- Saving What Was Lost
- FailureBank: A Social Learning Utility
November 2011
- A Thanksgiving Failure
- Harriet Tubman's Clever Lie
- The Failures of Lemieux
- Failed to Return a Text
- Admitting Failure
- A Leaders Job: Support Failure
October 2011
- [VIDEO] Mistakes with Tasty Dum Dums
- Failure and the Chocolate Chip Cookie
- Failure Goes Digital
- Using AIDS to Fight Cancer
- Victory Despite Obstacles
September 2011
Bad Drivers, Bad Roads
We’ve all complained about bad drivers. In the early days of the 20th century, however, one motorist decided the problem was actually the roads.
The story begins with a doctor named June A. Carroll. She was among the the first generation of physicians to make house calls by car. When Dr. Carroll travelled between her home in Indio, California and her office in Palm Springs, she drove along a particularly treacherous stretch of desert highway. On dark nights, she couldn’t even tell which side of the road she was on!
So, in 1912, she bought a can of white paint and put a thick stripe down a one-mile section of the road. This marking, Carroll must have assumed, would help weary travelers stay on the right side of the road.
Of course, Carroll was committing vandalism. Her act might have been for the greater good, but local officials could have accused her of vandalism. The very idea to paint the line itself arose out of failure, and Dr. Carroll failed to go through the proper channels with her suggestion.
Instead, her invention led to considerable success. The California Highway Commission loved the idea and quickly adopted the practice. Failure led directly to success.
