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Playlist: The benefits of failure (6 talks)

Failure isn’t fun, but it is an opportunity to learn, reflect and regroup. These insightful talks can help you pick yourself up after a setback and grow toward success.
Curated by TED · 6 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/the_benefits_of_failure

Playlist: The line between success and failure (7 talks)

What defines success -- and what is a failure, exactly? Readjust your expectations with these novel, refreshing perspectives on what it means to “win” and “lose”.
Curated by TED · 7 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/the_line_between_success_and_f

Playlist: How perfectionism fails us (4 talks)

Why it's best to celebrate the little wins and imperfect moments alongside the big successes to combat our fear of failure.
Curated by TED · 4 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/how_perfectionism_fails_us

Raphael Rose: How failure cultivates resilience

In his research for NASA, clinical psychologist Raphael Rose discovered that failure is key to creating resilience. He explains how leaning into trials and setbacks builds the emotional callouses that help us value what's good in life.
https://www.ted.com/talks/raphael_rose_how_failure_cultivates_resilience

JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure

At her Harvard commencement speech, "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems "worth more than any qualification I ever earned."
https://www.ted.com/talks/jk_rowling_the_fringe_benefits_of_failure

Sarah Lewis | TED Speaker

Art historian and critic Sarah Lewis celebrates creativity and shows how it can lead us through fear and failure to ultimate success.
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https://www.ted.com/speakers/sarah_lewis

David Damberger: What happens when an NGO admits failure

International aid groups make the same mistakes over and over again. David Damberger analyzes his own engineering failure in India -- and calls for his friends in the development sector to publicly admit, scrutinize and learn from their missteps.
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_damberger_what_happens_when_an_ngo_admits_failure

Astro Teller: The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure

"Great dreams aren't just visions," says Astro Teller, "They're visions coupled to strategies for making them real." The head of X (formerly Google X), Teller takes us inside the "moonshot factory," as it's called, where his team seeks to solve the world's biggest problems through experimental projects like balloon-powered Internet and wind turb...
https://www.ted.com/talks/astro_teller_the_unexpected_benefit_of_celebrating_failure

Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing world

The world is changing much more rapidly than most people realize, says business educator Eddie Obeng -- and creative output cannot keep up. In this spirited talk, he highlights three important changes we should understand for better productivity, and calls for a stronger culture of “smart failure."
https://www.ted.com/talks/eddie_obeng_smart_failure_for_a_fast_changing_world

Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating

Elizabeth Gilbert was once an "unpublished diner waitress," devastated by rejection letters. And yet, in the wake of the success of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' she found herself identifying strongly with her former self. With beautiful insight, Gilbert reflects on why success can be as disorienting as failure and offers a simple -- though hard -- way to ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_success_failure_and_the_drive_to_keep_creating

Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success

Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work.
https://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentler_philosophy_of_success

Jon Bowers: We should aim for perfection -- and stop fearing failure

Sometimes trying your best isn't enough; when the situation demands it, you need to be perfect. For Jon Bowers, who runs a training facility for professional delivery drivers, the stakes are high -- 100 people in the US die every day in car accidents -- and it's perfection, or "a willingness to do what is difficult to achieve what is right," tha...
https://www.ted.com/talks/jon_bowers_we_should_aim_for_perfection_and_stop_fearing_failure
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