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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
Getting Kicked Out of School Turned Into A Success
Being a student who was kicked out of school will usually have you marked as a failure. But Ahmed Al-Khabaz isn’t counted among them, even though he was expelled for hacking his own school’s system!
Al-Khabaz, only 20 years old, already received job offers from numerous companies that want his skills and clearly think the young hacker has promise. He was expelled for finding flaws in his school’s security system while working on a class project. The school reported that they had caught the young man rooting around in their private property more than once before they decided to expel him.
“Francois Paradis, the college’s director of information services, said Mr. Al-Khabaz was warned after being sighted twice in Dawson’s system before he reported the computer flaw. Mr. Paradis said Mr. Al-Khabaz was spotted again after being told about limitations on tests he could conduct after finding the flaw.”
Photo © Flickr User Mike Poresky
But Al-Khabaz had quite a different story.
“I was just scanning the software because I was scared for our data,” he said.
The student said he also asked for permission to do the later scan when he was told he was not authorized to carry out the task. He said he had three meetings with college officials and explained what he was doing.”
Though the school administration deemed him a failure, he decided to use this as a platform to prove that even a failure can lead to success!
