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Failure Tolerance
The actor, comedian, and marijuana cultivator on collaboration, success, and overcoming nerves — in business and life.
Ryan Holiday on why wisdom depends on failure, experimentation, and the courage to admit when we’re wrong.
Strategyzer CEO Alex Osterwalder on why entrepreneurs should take a leaf from Amazon’s innovation playbook.
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How the 40-year-old entrepreneur and media mogul learned from his struggles, and why he believes accountability is the real secret to happiness.
Unlikely Collaborators
Tennis pro Mardy Fish and Spanx founder Sara Blakely both turned failure into their greatest asset.
When Star Trek's Captain Picard and The Office's Dwight Schrute channel philosopher Karl Jaspers, we can all benefit.
Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn't the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.
Bob Dylan gave us the paradoxical gem "there's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all." He had a point.
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There are three kinds of failure. Only one can help you have a better shot of succeeding in the future. A Harvard business professor explains.
The Pan-American Highway began a century ago with a vision of unfettered motor-vehicle access between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. What happened to the dream?
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“You’re not punished for failing, you’re punished for not trying.” Former Uber exec Emil Michael on how to truly achieve success.
His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.
Take a hint from Einstein and Mozart — unplug and make peace with some degree of failure.
Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.
Our concept of "failure" is way too narrow.