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You see, there was a time when you weren't afraid of failure, when you were a great artist or a great dancer and you could sing, you were good at math, you could build things, you were an astronaut, an adventurer, Jacques Cousteau, you could jump higher, run faster, kick harder than anyone.
We need collaboration, imagination, determination, because failure is not an option.
Force feed my people deception and failure.
If you had an acute congestive heart failure, they could bleed a pint of blood from you by opening up an arm vein, giving you a crude leaf preparation of digitalis and then giving you oxygen by tent.
Skill number one is the ability to recognize success and the ability to recognize failure.
Clay Shirky once stated that there is no such animal as information overload, there is only filter failure.
They tried harder, they persevered longer, and they were more resilient in the face of failure.
So basically, I want the players to be able to experiment and explore a huge amount of failure space.
Capsule safety systems in the past have been like tractor pullers, and the reason we didn't want to do that is that puller needs to come off before you can safely reenter that capsule, so we wanted to eliminate, in design, that possibility of failure.
It's a failure.
During 41 years of teaching biology at Harvard, I watched sadly as bright students turned away from the possibility of a scientific career or even from taking non-required courses in science because they were afraid of failure.
Kensington was a community in crisis before this for reasons that are endemic and intertwined, and anyone familiar with the neighborhood can think of why: racial disparities, failure of local and federal government to properly fund schools, lack of economic opportunity.
I've got nightmare disorder, which is categorized if you have recurrent dreams of being pursued or declared a failure, and all my dreams involve people chasing me down the street going, "You're a failure!" (Laughter) I've got parent-child relational problems, which I blame my parents for.
There's no excuse for failure.
It has a high likelihood of failure and moreover, it has a high likelihood of making you feel stupid.
And so while computers alone can catch all but the cleverest fraudsters, catching the cleverest is the difference between success and failure.
I think that failure can be an incredibly motivating force as well, so I moved to Kenya and worked in Uganda, and I met a group of Rwandan women, who asked me, in 1986, to move to Kigali to help them start the first microfinance institution there.
So they rightly regarded this drug as a failure, and its commercial development was stopped, and because its commercial development was stopped, this trial was never published.
It's called smart failure.
And it comes out and it sells about 25,000 copies in the first few weeks, and the label considers this a failure.
It's a failure."
Well, you and I know when you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.
We came very close to failure, but we managed to get through that point in 2008.
This is analogous to having a power failure in an area of the brain, a regional power failure.
The failure to account for vulture scavenging can result in forensic scientists inaccurately estimating how long someone has been dead and then searching through the wrong missing person's files.
The fact that you have failure, that shouldn't stop you from pushing the science forward.
Dr. Dweck has shown that when kids read and learn about the brain and how it changes and grows in response to challenge, they're much more likely to persevere when they fail, because they don't believe that failure is a permanent condition.
I will talk to you today about the failure of leadership in global politics and in our globalizing economy.
Failure of leadership.
What is the failure of leadership today?
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