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Failure: The Blog 
August 2018
- When This Executive Was Fired, He Took Charge
- Obeying The Speed Limit Has Never Been More Fun
- London Black Cabs Helped Uber Grow
- Bette Graham Created A Product To Fix Her Mistakes
- Flamin' Hot Cheetos Had An Interesting Start
July 2018
- Fear This Instead Of Failure
- Re-Releasing Songs Created Success
- A CEO's Purposeful Mistake
- The Tardy Student And The Unsolvable Problem
- Fixing Potholes Through Graffiti
June 2018
- A Surprising Mistake In The Oxford English Dictionary
- US Army Embraces Mistakes
- Blocking A Hymn
- Eddie Shore Was Truly A Tough Guy
- [Video] Elon Musk Didn't "Pivot" He Failed
May 2018
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness Part 2
- Necessity Turned Accessory: Allen Iverson's Sleeve
- This Doctor Has Continued To Fail
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness
- MIT Accidentally Creates New Smelting Process
April 2018
- Johnny Cash Quit Singing Lessons
- Cruise Control Came Out of Frustration
- Time Spent Gaming Pays Off In The Navy
- Rock Around The Clock Was a Commercial Failure
- Sigmund Freud Should Have Been Discouraged
March 2018
The FAIL Meme
If you’ve been on the Internet for more than a week, you’ve run across videos, images and blocks of text that spread like wildfire. These are called “memes.” One of the most popular is simply called “FAIL.”
There are countless examples of FAIL available. Here’s a short clip of an exercise technique gone wrong:
That’s pretty painful. In fact, the FAIL meme is so common you can see an endless stream of people using it on the microblogging service Twitter:
There’s no question that our culture is obsessed with failure. We do love to laugh at people who stumble. Yet this is not an admirable part of the FAIL meme. Instead, we should focus on the pride of making mistakes. Watch a few of the Tweets above and see who is proclaiming their failure.
Isn’t admitting that we make mistakes the first step toward finding success?
