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Failure: The Blog 
April 2018
- 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
- Superman Couldn't Fly
- This School Shares Failures
- Jim Croce's Parents Hoped He Would Fail
- McDonald's Turns A Cheater Into A Winner
- Snake Eyes Was Made To Save Money
February 2018
- A Stolen Album Created Success
- The 1679 Habeas Corpus Act Passed Due To A Joke
- Changing The Print On A Box Saved Money
- George Washington Survived His Miserable Mother
- How Warehouse Stores Began
January 2018
- Reddit User Found Success Through Failure
- Remembering Famous Failures
- Mistake Or Genius Marketing?
- Waste From Our Eyes Lets Us See
- The Slinky Was Accidentally Created
December 2017
- Proceeding After A Failure
- An Elementary School Embraces Failure
- When Businesses Apologize
- How The Olympics Nearly Destroyed Montreal
- Benji Was A Shelter Dog!
November 2017
Are We Confusing Our Ideas Of Success And Failure?
Srinivasa Addepalli’s article in Your Story revolves around how we view failure and success. Could we be wrong about how the two are connected?
Photo © Flickr User Sean MacEntee
Addepalli’s story strikes a chord with us here at The Failure Blog. He was staring down placement week at the end of an MBA and came face-to-face with more failure in those four days than he ever had in his life at that point. He was always devoted to marketing and thought his love of the field would land him a job with a company yet he failed to land a position with any company. The only offer he received was from a consulting firm, something he wasn’t passionate about. He immediately said yes, thankful to have any offer, only to then have to turn down a better offer at a different company. Addepali said:
“Looking back, the biggest lesson I learnt from that day was that we often have our narratives of failure and success all mixed up. While we must have clear goals to chase, we must also not be so rigid that we fail to pursue alternate paths that might present themselves.”
We need to learn from our failures!
