Failure Is Your Friend (Rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 21 May 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In which we argue that failure should not only be tolerated but celebrated.

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0:00.0	Hey podcast listeners, this is Steven Dubner, your host.
0:09.2	This episode is about failure.
0:11.4	We originally put it out last year, but in case you failed to listen then, see what I did
0:15.2	there.
0:16.2	We are giving you another chance, and if you did hear it before, I hope you'll find something
0:19.7	new this time around.
0:20.7	You'll hear about GoFever and how the Challenger Space Tragedy could have been avoided.
0:25.8	You'll learn how to use a pre-mortem, and you might even come to think of failure as
0:30.8	your friend.
0:31.8	Hope you enjoy.
0:50.9	So Levit, you're a fairly successful fellow.
0:57.3	I'm just curious, have you succeeded at everything you've ever done?
1:01.7	No, I've mostly failed at everything I've ever done.
1:04.7	Particularly, please.
1:05.7	Well definitely GoF. GoF has been a lifelong failure.
1:08.8	You know when I was a kid, all I wanted to do was a professional GoF.
1:12.4	And thank God that I was so bad at GoF.
1:15.1	That I couldn't even imagine trying to be a pro GoF.
1:18.0	I think one of the worst lives you can have in some sense in a modern world is thinking
1:22.7	you're good enough to play pro GoF.
1:24.9	Not being good enough to play pro GoF.
1:27.3	Struggling for a decade or 20 years and then you got nothing to show.
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