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STEM Graduate Programs Should Embrace Failure
By Brittany Trang A few months ago, the culmination of my Ph.D. research was published in Science, the journal of any STEM graduate student’s dreams. My colleagues and I reported on a potential...
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What My Year-long Struggle for the German Driving License Taught Me
If there is something that I have struggled the most in life for, it is driving. I was born in India and I never had to drive myself around there as we could afford a driver. I did take lessons, took...
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5 Things That People Do When They Are Mentally Fit
It’s difficult to determine if someone is mentally strong or not. What is strong in that sense? This is completely dependent on your definition of a strong mind. As humans we often tend to be...
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Why Replacing Judgment With Curiosity Was the Best Decision Ever
Something powerful has been lurking just below consciousness for a while. It started with a phrase my long-time sponsor would say when I told him about my troubles: “Well that’s interesting.” Of...
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No More Regrets: A Study on Eliminating Regret and Maximizing Potential
Regret is one of the worst feelings. In my early twenties, I had the goal of never having any regret in life. Unfortunately, it seems part of the human experience involves having some regrets....
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Handling Epic Fails
For more than 30 years, I’ve worked with creative and performing artists as a creativity coach. Let me share with you a lesson that I regularly share with my clients. Whatever you do in life, whether...
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Wasps and Celebrating Our Failures With Our Kids
We can all agree that wasps are nature’s jerks. They are the equivalent of drivers that leave their turn signal on, the animal version of the screaming Karen asking to see your manager, the nut job...
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Dad! Please Find Me a Wizard
I knew I had hit rock-bottom the day I went dumpster diving and returned home to my wife and daughters with a pack of thawed scallops and two fat rolls of Jimmy Dean sausage. The monumental collapse of...
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Out There
he went back out the sentence sounds 00:06 just like that a sentence to death and 00:11 misery with a desire for misery I’ve 00:14 sentenced myself yes many times to die 00:17 the pills swirling like...
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The Top 5 Tips for Reacting to Failure
Failure is almost certainly to be part and parcel of your experience running a business. It simply isn’t possible to hit a home run every time you try something new with your business and so sometimes...
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Love Your Kids? Then Let Them Fail (A Little Bit)
Part of being a good parent is finding balance between criticizing and praising your kids. The more difficult of the two is giving criticism. You find yourself torn between a desire to teach your kids,...
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Does Failing at Something Mean You Were Not Trying Hard Enough?
— There is probably no single person alive in America today (and perhaps the world) who has not heard the advice, “whatever you do, always give it your best.” I grew up convinced this was good advice,...
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Why Sucking at Something Makes You MORE Attractive
When I first got pulled up on stage as a shy kid. Or when I used to be nervous about singing karaoke. Or even just trying a sport for the first time when I could fall and look like an idiot in front...
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Dear Mr. Failure
Dear Mr. Failure, How are you? Despite your return to my life yesterday, I am well. To borrow a phrase from Les Brown, I am better than good and better than most. I am writing this letter to thank you....
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Failure as Feedback
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice. –Brian Herbert I recently found myself delivering a safety presentation to a gymnasium filled...
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Helping a Highly Sensitive Child With Their Fear of Failure
Highly sensitive children are often perfectionists. Perfectionists don’t like making mistakes and find criticism difficult to take. It means that highly sensitive children commonly have a fear of...
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Failure IS an Option
My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again. —RICHARD BRANSON, business magnate, investor, and...
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How I Lost $100,000 Pursuing My Dream
I called it Explorio and it was supposed to become a travel reviews platform that rewards its users for writing travel reviews thus allowing them to fund their travels indefinitely. As passionate as I...
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One of the Worst Myths of Recovery is that You Need to Hit “Rock Bottom”...
You have lost it all. You are in a crack house, alone. Needles. Hookers. No food. Shit everywhere. Rock bottom will only set us up for more failure, rather than leaving in tact the hope, energy and...
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List Your Failures
Embed from Getty Images — While in a prolonged state of unemployment, I often find myself considering my many failures. As I grew tired of judging myself in this way and ruminating on my business...
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