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Failure: The Blog 
September 2017
- A Reverse April Fool's Day
- An Undertaker's Necessary Creation
- Ioannis Yannas And His Accidental Discovery
- Nikola Tesla Lied To Pay His Bills
August 2017
- Green Eggs And Gambling
- The Dog That Sits On Editorial Boards
- A Failure Event Known As inX3
- How To "Unbrand" Yourself
- Stephen Hawking Won't Get A Voice Upgrade
July 2017
- Dying Stars Give Us Paint
- Worcestershire Sauce Wasn't A Hit At First
- 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
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!
