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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
Pull Success Out Of Your Failures
We here at The Failure Blog are always thrilled to see more people who agree that failing can be successful. Two more authors have joined the cause!
Anjali Sastry and Kara Penn are talking about something we’re very familiar with – making mistakes and using those errors to become successful. Their book, Fail Better: Design Smart Mistakes And Succeed Sooner, discusses why failing is so important and how they improve your chances of success.
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Sastry, a lecturer at both MIT and Harvard Medical school, teamed up with Penn who is a co-founder and consultant for Mission Spark. They had this to say on their reason for the idea of this book:
“We’ve seen it all over the world, in companies, non-profit organizations and executive classrooms, not to mention the media: Everyone knows we should learn from failure. But there’s little guidance for how to do so. Stories of corporate heroes succeeding after they’ve endured setbacks may be inspiring, but they fall short of showing how to create the conditions for—and capture the benefits of—productive failures. We wrote Fail Better to fill that gap.”
Sometimes, failure can turn into success!
