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Pull Success Out Of Your Failures

June 8th, 2015 - by Alyssa Shea

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!

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