Seek to Misconstrue + a
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
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!
