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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
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?
