Toyota rejected 47 of Soichiro Honda’s first 50 piston rings. This Japanese proverb, and a red doll with no arms or legs, explain...
In 2009, Brandon Webb lost his first startup and his life savings. His equation explains how he turned that failure into competence...
Stan Wawrinka lost to the same player 10 times in a row, then had this quote tattooed on his arm. Samuel Beckett’s words explain how...
A Nobel Prize winner walked up to Adam Grant after a talk and told him, smiling, that he’d been wrong. Grant’s quote explains why...
Julia Child dropped a potato pancake on live TV and kept cooking. Jordan Peterson’s quote explains why looking foolish is the price...
When Joshua Foer’s progress stalled while training for the USA Memory Championship, he sped up a metronome to push himself into...
Thomas Carlyle lost a whole book to a fire after lending out his only copy. His quote explains how to learn from your mistakes...
At 19, Bobby Jones tore up his scorecard at St Andrews and walked off. Six years later he won there. His quote explains why your...
Will Smith called After Earth the most painful failure of his career. His quote explains why he went looking for more failure, and...