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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
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.
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“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!
