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Failure: The Blog 
February 2012
- Unfinished, But Inhabited
- The Success of Failure, via CNN
- Einstein Actually Had Excellent Grades
- The Physics of Discarded Paper
- The Power of Failing
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
Failure and the Chocolate Chip Cookie
Just about everybody loves homemade chocolate chip cookies. According to one story, however, they were created by accident.
According to one online source:
The chocolate chip cookie was accidentally developed by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1930. She owned the Toll House Inn, in Whitman, Massachusetts, a very popular restaurant that featured home cooking in the 1930s.
Wakefield is said to have been making chocolate cookies and on running out of regular baker’s chocolate, substituted broken pieces of semi-sweet chocolate from Nestlé thinking that they would melt and mix into the batter. They did not and the chocolate chip cookie was born.
What is now one of the most famous snacks in the country started out as a mistake. Almost everybody loves chocolate chip cookies, but if Ms. Wakefield hadn’t screwed up her recipe we might have this delicious treat today.
Failure is the secret to success. Try a similar idea in your next project, whether you are baking at home or working at the office. Sometimes errors lead to fantastic discoveries. Sometimes mistakes can be sweet!
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http://www.italytasteandtravel.com Italy Taste and Travel
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http://www.sayitforyou.net Rhoda Israelov