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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
Houston Airport Uses A Failure To Succeed
Houston airport received a lot of complaints about baggage claim wait times. So they decided to go about fixing the problem in a very peculiar way.
Normally, when you set out to fix a problem, the first thing you do isn’t to use what you would think would be a failure to resolve it. But that is exactly what a Houston airport did. Passengers had about a minute walk to get to their luggage, but would have to wait roughly 7 minutes to actually get their bags. Officials decided to move the arrival gates further away from the baggage claim area, resulting in travelers having to walk six times longer to retrieve their things.
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You may think this would just cause an even bigger problem, with people then complaining about the long walk. But instead the airport authorities found the complaints dwindled down to nearly zero. M.I.T. operations researcher, Richard Larson, explained why.
“Often the psychology of queuing is more important than the statistics of the wait itself.”
Taking up time by making commuters walk longer gives them the feeling that they don’t have to wait so long. Authorities really found a way to use a failure to bring success!
