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Failure: The Blog  

October 2012

  • 'Goldeneye' Creators Had Almost No Experience
  • Flushing Away an Enormous Problem
  • The Little Lie About the Biggest Mountain
  • You Should Unfriend 10 People on Facebook
  • Inventor of Most Popular Guitar Could Not Play Guitar
  • TV Show Star And High School Dropout

September 2012

  • In Praise of Mediocrity
  • The Failure to Patent a Billion Dollar Formula
  • This Bus Stop is a Fake
  • [VIDEO] A Hollywood Camera Move Made From Junk
  • Productivity Through Self Denial?
  • Harvard Business Review: Get Ready to Fail

August 2012

  • The Innovative Power of Lying
  • [VIDEO] You're Not That Great
  • The Failure of a Great Singer
  • James Cameron was Homeless
  • Something Worse Than Failure
  • Jackie Chan and the Plan to Fail
  • On Failure and Baseball

July 2012

  • Failure on the Radio
  • Complaint Calls Can Be Useful
  • The Terribly Useful Terrible Movie
  • FedEx's Big Gamble (No, Really)
  • Positive Fail, Dot Com
  • How Boring Attire Wins

June 2012

  • [VIDEO] Failing to Success / Harvard Business Review
  • Sly Stallone's Failures
  • The Secret Purpose of Computer Solitaire

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[VIDEO] Harrison and the Diving Board

April 25th, 2012 - 2 Comments »

Reader Lorraine Ball, owner of an Indianapolis marketing company, pointed us at this short video on failure.

Here’s the link to Harrison and the Diving Board (embedded below):

As Lorraine notes, “Past failure is no indicator of future performance. The reason is that we learn from our mistakes, we learn from our failures.”

Check the out the video!

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  • http://profiles.google.com/lorraine.roundpeg Lorraine Ball

    Glad you liked the video.  It is a good example of learning from your mistakes and one of my favorite stories about my son. 

  • John E Slaughter

    I liked the video.  Our world  has become so risk averse. 


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