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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
Starting Your Success With Failure
Failure is a pretty big obstacle. But sometimes, success has to begin with a failure, something that one writer found out on her road to success.
Writer Therese Borchard wrote a piece for Everyday Health about how failure is a key to success. In fact, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation holds a yearly Fail Fest. The purpose of this is to celebrate the valuable lessons learned from investing money into organizations that ended up failing. Borchard opens up about her own thoughts on failure, and how it molded her.
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She struggled through English throughout most of her schooling, and when she asked for a letter of recommendation from a teach for an assistant editor position, he refused. But that didn’t stop Borchard from achieving her dream of seeing her name in print. After countless rejection letters when trying to publish her book, Borchard realized that most of those letters were signed by an acquisitions editor.
“So, theoretically, if I were to become an acquisitions editor that meant I could vote yes on my own books. Which is exactly what I did. And I published six children’s books the next year from Paulist Press.”
She used her failure to become a success story!
