Seek to Misconstrue + a
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
When Pain Is Good
A 1962 edition of TIME Magazine included this teaser: “Father and mother were both delighted when the boy complained of severe pain in his right arm, and sometimes in the fingers of his right hand. This was just what they had been waiting for.”
The entire article is only a few paragraphs long, but it explains an incredibly successful surgery:
…the patient was unique: he was Everett Knowles Jr., 13, the Little League pitcher from Somerville whose right arm was torn off by a freight train and sewn back in place at Massachusetts General Hospital. But in this first operation, the surgeons rejoined only skin, muscle, bone and blood vessels; they left the all-important nerves until later.
Photo © Courtesy Massachusetts General Hospital. Used with permission.
Reattaching limbs was anything but routine back in those days. In fact, a recent Wired Magazine article explains at first, the operation failed over half of the time.
But doctors kept trying. They continued to work to improve their procedures and have become more successful with each passing year.
Failure is the secret to success. Everett “Red” Knowles, by the way, returned to baseball and eventually regained full function in his damanged arm.
