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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
FailureBank: A Social Learning Utility
It’s not looking good for a start-up company called FailureBank. They haven’t raised enough funding yet—but is that the point?
One of the thousands of companies on KickStarter is about to run of time on their goal. From the website:
No matter what arena you find yourself in – whether you’re an entrepreneur, fully entrenched in the corporate world, or even still a student – FailureBank can help you overcome and learn from your failures on your path to success.
We’re building an online platform to help people like you visualize, conceptualize, and internalize the failures you experience. This visually engaging process will help you “track your path” to success, enabling you to identify exactly when, where, and how failures arose over a certain time period (whether that’s 2 months or 2 years). With tools built in to help you extract meaning from your experiences, FailureBank is sure to help you bounce back from your failures before they compound and turn into a tragedy – something that can’t be fixed.
Photo © Flickr User mandiberg
This sounds like a great idea. But as of today, they aren’t even 10% of the way to their funding goal. It looks like FailureBank is going to fail to start.
One would think that these entrepreneurs won’t be deterred by this set back. If anything, the first listing in “FailureBank” may be “how we tried to use Kickstarter and failed.” Best of luck to this group. Their trying to do something hard. From their own mission:
FailureBank will begin to erase the negative connotation associated with failure. And as the FailureBank community redefines what failure means – a universal experience to learn from, not to fear – we’ll accelerate success not only for ourselves, but our country as a whole.
Kudos to you, FailureBank!
