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Focusing on leadership, diplomacy and institutional design also helps explain failures to achieve peace, or to make it last.

Changes and shortcomings in leadership, more off than on international diplomacy and institutional failures account for this in almost equal measure.

Both successes and failures teach us several critically important things that we need to bear in mind if we want the good news to continue.

Yet, no amount of diplomacy or institutional design can make up for local failures and the consequences that they have.

Or that we require kids to sit still too much, and so boys initially feel like failures?

It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures.

I would just like to say that one of the big things, when we look at waste and when we look at ways that we can really be generous and contribute to each other, but also move to create a better economic situation and a better environmental situation, is by sharing failures.

So the opportunity when we're connected is also to share failures and successes.

So in the course of my career, I have covered a series of failures.

A second skill is equipoise, the ability to have the serenity to read the biases and failures in your own mind.

Through the policy failures of the last 30 years, we have come to acknowledge, I think, how shallow our view of human nature has been.

There aren't enough examples of failures.

So in wildlife rescue as in life, we learn from each previous experience, and we learn from both our successes and our failures.

But something else happened in the early 1980s, and that was that there was a mysterious epidemic of failures of tape drives all over the United States.

I spend my time trying to understand how it is that human minds work, from our amazing successes to our dismal failures.

After 11 complete mission failures, we got our first images from space.

It took a lot of failures to get there.

Skill one, find where your failures are.

And since they discovered this, it stuck with them so much more, and also they would experience their own failures.

These were the structures that would be floating at the surface made out of some inexpensive plastic material that'll allow the algae to grow, and we had built lots and lots of designs, most of which were horrible failures, and when we finally got to a design that worked, at about 30 gallons, we scaled it up to 450 gallons in San Francisco.

So I actually spend most of my "World 3.0" book working through a litany of market failures and fears that people have that they worry globalization is going to exacerbate.

If there's a takeaway to this talk, I hope it's that we all feel more comfortable acknowledging the power of image in our perceived successes and our perceived failures.

As I destroyed each project, I was learning to let go, let go of outcomes, let go of failures, and let go of imperfections.

Europe, despite its recent failures, is the world's most successful cross-border peace experiment.

Famines were long understood to be caused by failures in food supply.

They say, "You know, the state, it's necessary to fix these little market failures when you have public goods or different types of negative externalities like pollution, but you know what, what is the next big revolution going to be after the Internet?

Now, what's interesting in all of this is the state, in all these examples, was doing so much more than just fixing market failures.

(Laughter and applause) So I was one of their failures.

So imagine if you designed kettles, you actually found a way to solve these system failures, because this is a huge amount of pressure on the system, just because the product hasn't thought about the problem that it's going to have when it exists in the world.

Fortunately, we can afford a few failures, because we've certainly had them.

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