Why It's Good to Reveal Your Failures
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Learn about why successful people should reveal their failures; the extreme story of the death of planet WASP-12b; and why tulips used to cost more than houses during a period known as “tulip mania.”
A Reason to Reveal Your Failures by Kelsey Donk
- HBS Working Knowledge. (2018, December 11). Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2018/12/11/why-managers-should-reveal-their-failures/#695e82c362e2
- Envy Can Be Good for You. (2019). Curiosity.com. https://curiosity.com/topics/envy-can-be-good-for-you-curiosity
- Brooks, A. W., Huang, K., Abi-Esber, N., Buell, R. W., Huang, L., & Hall, B. (2019). Mitigating malicious envy: Why successful individuals should reveal their failures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(4), 667–687. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000538
The Death of Planet WASP-12b by Grant Currin
- Planet WASP-12b is on a death spiral, say Princeton scientists. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/pu-pwi010820.php
- The Planet WASP-12b Is Hot As Hades And Dark As Night. (2017). Curiosity.com. https://curiosity.com/topics/the-planet-wasp-12b-is-hot-as-hades-and-dark-as-night-curiosity
- Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet. (2011). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/hubble-captures-blistering-pitch-black-planet
Tulips Cost More Than Houses During Dutch "Tulip Mania" by Cody Gough
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| 0:00.0 | Season's greetings. We're wrapping up the year with a look back at your favorite |
| 0:04.3 | episodes of 2020. Enjoy this Curiosity Daily Classic and stay subscribe for |
| 0:09.5 | brand new episodes starting January 1st. See you in 2021. |
| 0:14.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity |
| 0:19.2 | Come. I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:20.7 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:21.8 | Today you learn about why successful people should |
| 0:24.0 | reveal their failures, the extreme story of the death of planet Wasp 12b, and why tulips |
| 0:30.3 | used to cost more than houses during a period known as Tulip Mania. |
| 0:34.0 | Well, let's send us fast some curiosity. |
| 0:36.0 | Success is a double-edged sword. |
| 0:39.0 | Hard work can come with amazing benefits like more pay, more responsibility, and more stability, but it can also |
| 0:45.8 | carry jealousy, competition, and resentment, right along with it. |
| 0:50.4 | So how do you keep the scales tipped toward the positive? |
| 0:53.0 | Well, according to new research from Harvard Business School, |
| 0:56.0 | you can do it by talking more about your failures. |
| 1:00.0 | This tip might sound counterintuitive. |
| 1:02.0 | Isn't it important to talk up your achievements? This tip might sound counterintuitive. |
| 1:02.6 | Isn't it important to talk up your achievements? |
| 1:05.6 | Don't you want people to know you're successful? |
| 1:08.1 | Why would you ever highlight your failures, right? |
| 1:11.2 | Well, the thing is, when successful people only talk about their |
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