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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
In Case of Kidnapping
No family wants to even consider the awful possibility of kidnapping. One writer, however, explains an unusual official technique for battling this horrible event.
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The book is called Tremble the Devil and it’s by an anonymous author. He or she writes:
While Yousef was away at school in Wales for his college education, his family returned to their homeland of
Baluchistan, a small embattled province along the Pakistani border that could make the term “war-torn” want to settle down and raise a family. In Baluchistan, kidnapping is so commonplace that signs are posted in public places explaining “What to Do In Case of Kidnap,” and authorities adopted the ironic and unorthodox and tongue-twisting tactic of kidnapping a kidnapper’s kin to coerce an exchange of kidnappees.
Let’s walk through that again. Say your child is kidnapped. Sure, you can try to pay the ransom, but in Baluchistan that’s not a great move. Kidnappings happen there all the time. So you call the police, and they respond with a strategy:Let’s figure out who took your baby, and we’ll kidnap their kid.
This may sound like an absolutely insane idea, but apparently it works. And while the case of kidnapping is pretty extreme, it shows that sometimes you have do something which seems like a terrible approach to do something right. Or: failure is the secret to success.
