Seek to Misconstrue + a
Failure: The Blog 
July 2017
- Why Some Video Games Fail
- We Have The Internet Because of Fear of Failure
- The Mistake That Created The Whopper Jr.
June 2017
- Ben Schwartz Took Risks
- Robert Sternberg Failed His Psychology Class
- Sony Began With A Rice Cooker That Burned Rice
- Jay Coughlan Success Started With Prison
- Tai Lopez's Rags To Riches Story
May 2017
- Ways To Turn Those Failures Around
- Aaron Swenson Believes In Failure
- Scientific Discovery Requires Failure
- Millennials Need To Learn To Fail
- Gareth Edwards Feared Failure
April 2017
- Chocolate Shortage in WW2 Created Success
- Manufacturers Helped During The Great Depression
- General Electric's Joke Turned Into Success
- Swanson's Leftover Turkey Issue Brought Success
- Blister Packs Are Annoying. Also, They Save Lives.
March 2017
- The "Back To The Future" Script Was Rejected
- Ella Fitzgerald Often Forgot Lyrics
- City Looking For Talented Graffiti Artist
- Juan Jose Mendez Is A Survivor
- LaCroix's Tacky Label
February 2017
General Electric’s Joke Turned Into Success
When faced with the impossible, many people will shy away or simply not try at all. Marvin Pipkin didn’t run away from a challenge that was thought to be impossible. He created an item every household has to this day!
As a joke, GE would haze their new employees, asking them to invent frosted light bulbs. This was considered an impossible task at the time. Pipkin refused to believe that.
Photo © Flickr User trekkyandy
“When I was fussing around with inside frosting experiments, back in 1919, everybody laughed at me, and kept calling me off to tackle something ‘more practical,'” Pipkin told Popular Science magazine in August 1927. “They told me about the manufacturer who had contracted with the railroads to supply 50,000 inside frosted bulbs, and had begged off on his contract when he found he had 50 percent breakage in his product. Inside frosting was an exploded dream.”
One company’s joke turned into a raging success!
