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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
Gareth Edwards Feared Failure
Gareth Edwards gave himself a checklist to follow. So when he was unable to direct his first movie, he felt like he’d failed himself.
The Concordian published a really great article on Edwards which really delves into his career choices. Instead of wallowing in that rut of failure, he purchased a computer and began to tinker with visual effects software.
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“I did lots of these silly things like animating dinosaurs and robots and putting them in my parent’s driveway,” said Edwards. “And I’d go for job interviews in London and try to get directing work, and they would watch my short films and be very unimpressed. And then suddenly these robots and dinosaurs would turn up at the end and they’d go ‘well what are these?’”
This turned out to be the key to his first first feature film, Monsters, which was the turning point in his career. Failure truly can help you succeed!
