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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
James Cameron was Homeless
He directed movies like Titanic, Avatar and Terminator 2. He worked on the screenplay for True Lies and Rambo II. And for a time, James Cameron lived in his car.
That comes from a retrospective on the website IGN, which notes:
When James Cameron wrote the script [for Terminator] – his first feature length screenplay – he was barely making ends meet, even living in his car for a time. Cameron wanted to direct, and he knew that this screenplay was his best ticket. Of course, his stipulation to direct the film was also the biggest burden to sell to producers. The production companies he met with liked his script, but none of them were too keen on handing the camera over to someone with so little real experience. In the end, he sold his script to producer Gale Anne Hurd for one dollar – but the director’s chair was his.
It’s hard to imagine the multimillionare Hollywood legend struggling at this level and betting his future on such a demand. But not only is it true, it’s also something else others have done. Sylvester Stallone, for example, has a similar story. And while writer Aaron Sorkin didn’t have to beat poverty, he defeated drug addiction. And Martin Scorsese probably became a movie lover as a child because a bad case of asthma kept him indoors.
Failure is the secret to success. Great heights are achieved only after great failures.
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