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August 2018

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  • Bette Graham Created A Product To Fix Her Mistakes
  • Flamin' Hot Cheetos Had An Interesting Start

July 2018

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  • The Tardy Student And The Unsolvable Problem
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June 2018

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  • Eddie Shore Was Truly A Tough Guy
  • [Video] Elon Musk Didn't "Pivot" He Failed

May 2018

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  • Necessity Turned Accessory: Allen Iverson's Sleeve
  • This Doctor Has Continued To Fail
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  • MIT Accidentally Creates New Smelting Process

April 2018

  • Johnny Cash Quit Singing Lessons
  • 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

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Aaron Swenson Believes In Failure

May 24th, 2017 - by Alyssa Shea

Aaron Swenson, Weber State University alumnus and Manager of Global Corporate Payments for American Express, took the time to talk to students about how important it is to fail.

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After attending WSU in 2003 and entering into a career in finance, Swenson came back to his old stomping grounds to talk to students about failure and wanted to encourage them to not be afraid of failing. He was invited to speak in the Nye Lecture Series and gave everyone in the room a bit of hope:

“Failure is okay, and businesses have ups and downs, to be able to minimize that as much as possible but to not be discouraged and to realize that there are so many different, unique and changing ways that businesses are operating primary cash flow bases,” said Swenson.

Don’t let failure discourage you from finding success!

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