Failure Is An Option

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Original broadcast date: July 29, 2016. Failure can be devastating, but it can also make us stronger and smarter. This week, TED speakers explore how failure clears the way for success, in our everyday work, and our innermost lives. Guests include entrepreneur Astro Teller, economist Tim Harford, author Casey Gerald, and writer Lidia Yuknavitch.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Guy here.
0:01.2	So by now, you've probably heard the Silicon Valley mantra
0:04.2	fail fast, fail often.
0:06.1	But how can you make sure you learn from failure?
0:09.2	Well, today on the show, we're exploring all kinds of failure
0:12.4	from trial, error, and experimentation
0:15.3	to the kind of personal failure that
0:17.3	exposes our deepest insecurities.
0:19.9	This episode is called Failure Is An Option
0:22.7	and it originally aired in July of 2016.
0:25.8	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:32.8	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:35.0	Ted Talks.
0:36.2	Ted.
0:37.0	Ted, technology.
0:38.2	Entertainment Design.
0:39.2	Design.
0:39.6	Is that really what's 10 for us?
0:40.8	I'm never known that.
0:41.7	Delivered at Ted Conferences around the world.
0:44.0	The gift of the human imagination.
0:45.4	We've had to believe in impossible things.
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