how to fail successfully
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Keynote speech for Hult Prize social entrepreneurship finalists at Impact Hub San Francisco on March 9, 2014. Video of the talk is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vez81f8SS2ETRANSCRIPT
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How to Fail GloriouslySuccessfully
Eugene Eric KimMarch 9, 2014San Francisco, CA
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My Qualifications?
• Founded two collaboration consultancies: Blue Oxen Associates and Groupaya
• More horror stories than you can count, including failing at failing
• Experimenting with ways to scale collaborative literacy. Most haven’t worked.
• Lots of lessons learned at fasterthan20.com
• Good at asking why
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What are your qualifications?
Think of a story where you were successful at overcoming adversity.
Now think of a story where youfailed magnificently.
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Why do we care about failing?
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We don’t. We care aboutsolving hard problems.
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Solving hard problems requires that we begood at learning.
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This kind of learning ismessy and hard.
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How can we fail successfully?
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1. Be real2. Feel3. Practice
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1. Be real2. Feel3. Practice
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It is not a badge of honor to fail.
It’s a badge of honor to learn.
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Failure as a Success Metric
☐ …☐ …☑ Something unexpected went
wrong☑ We learned from a previous
mistake☐ …☐ …
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Be Precise About Failure
FailureMinimum Success
Target Success
Epic Success
!
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1. Be real2. Feel3. Practice
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“Joyful” Funerals?!
Aligning what you say with how you actually feel.
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Be nice to yourself.Seriously!
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1. Be real2. Feel3. Practice
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Practice Falling!
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“Fall down.
Make a mess.
Break something occasionally.
Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be.
And remember that the story is never over.”
—Conan O’Brien,2000 Harvard Commencement Speech
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Thank you!Eugene Eric [email protected]: @eekim
Drawings by Amy Wu of words & design. Cute nephews courtesy of my sister and brother-in-law.
Some rights reserved. CC BY 4.0