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Failure: The Blog 
July 2018
- A CEO's Purposeful Mistake
- The Tardy Student And The Unsolvable Problem
- Fixing Potholes Through Graffiti
June 2018
- A Surprising Mistake In The Oxford English Dictionary
- US Army Embraces Mistakes
- Blocking A Hymn
- Eddie Shore Was Truly A Tough Guy
- [Video] Elon Musk Didn't "Pivot" He Failed
May 2018
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness Part 2
- Necessity Turned Accessory: Allen Iverson's Sleeve
- This Doctor Has Continued To Fail
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness
- 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
- McDonald's Turns A Cheater Into A Winner
- Snake Eyes Was Made To Save Money
February 2018
Nikola Tesla Lied To Pay His Bills
The greatest inventors must have been wildly famous and rich while they were alive, right? How could they have struggled if they were so successful?
Nikola Tesla is rarely given his dues when it comes to recognition of his contributions to the scientific community. The man was a genius and his inventions with the transmission and application of electric power changed our world. So how was it that he was so broke he couldn’t pay his own hotel bill? After wracking up a pretty significant hotel bill, which he couldn’t pay, Tesla offered them one of his inventions instead.
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“He told them the device—which he referred to as a death beam, not a death ray—was extremely dangerous, and could detonate if someone opened it without taking the proper precautions.”
Except it was anything but a death beam, as they found out years after his death. Tesla successfully overcame failure!
