Failure
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Of course it helps that fear of public
failure
diminishes as the number of ideas which have failed increases.
And I think corruption, and the fight against corruption, and the impact of corruption, is probably one of the most interesting ways to illustrate what I mean with this
failure
of governance.
I mean it's just absolutely a formula for
failure.
That's the fluid status, fluid status, that's really important if you're monitoring somebody with heart
failure.
So, this is really striking, because this device measures seven things that are very much vital signs for monitoring someone with heart
failure.
First of all, heart
failure
is the number one reason for hospital admissions and readmissions in this country.
The cost of heart
failure
is 37 billion dollars a year, which is 80 percent related to hospitalization.
Well the idea is we take this device that I'm wearing, and we put it on 600 patients with heart failure, randomly assigned, versus 600 patients who don't have active monitoring, and see whether we can reduce heart
failure
readmissions, and that's exciting.
Heart
failure
we already talked about.
NASA has this phrase that they like:
"Failure
is not an option."
But
failure
has to be an option in art and in exploration, because it's a leap of faith.
So, that's the thought I would leave you with, is that in whatever you're doing,
failure
is an option, but fear is not.
And that is a surefire recipe for
failure.
He talked about the glories of
failure.
Same is true for organ failure, when you have loss of function owing to poor perfusion of kidney, of liver, acute respiratory distress syndrome and damage suffered in cardiac-bypass surgery.
One thing those people did out there was take this technology of hydrogen sulfide, which is this start-up company that's burning venture capital very quickly, and they fused it with another company that sells another toxic gas that's more toxic than hydrogen sulfide, and they give it to newborn babies who would otherwise die from a
failure
to be able to oxygenate their tissues properly.
And in real life, when we face failure, when we confront obstacles, we often don't feel that way.
Perhaps because a lesson had been learned by the weak response to the war in Bosnia and the
failure
in Rwanda, when Serbia attacked Kosovo, international action was taken much more decisively.
So let me give you a famous example, a famous
failure
and a famous success of the law of diffusion of innovation.
First, the famous
failure.
But TiVo's a commercial
failure.
I was a
failure.
I was physically exhausted, mentally an absolute wreck, considered myself a
failure.
And they were allowed to do so because of the absolute
failure
of oversight of the government that is supposed to be our government, protecting us.
My
failure
to procure myself a cup of sweet, green tea was not due to a simple misunderstanding.
With a hundred different kinds of jeans on display, there is no excuse for
failure.
Only dead people never get stressed, never get broken hearts, never experience the disappointment that comes with
failure.
So we looked at that observation of basically
failure
and thought, what can we do about it.
The chances of
failure
are very high, but it certainly won't happen if we don't try to make it happen.
Stubblebine, who commanded 16,000 soldiers, was confounded by his continual
failure
to walk through the wall.
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