Accept failure to live a meaningful life. The man behind Museum of Failure gets up close with us as he reveals his own - yet biggest - professional failure.
Discover more failures and learn from the mistakes that have left us lessons the hard way!
🤷 THE FAILURE STORY:
All of a sudden everybody was interested in the new and innovative Museum of Failure, but Sam was not prepared for what would come next. Not only the global interest in this project was a surprise, but also and unexpected notification. His former business partner was suing him demanding the museum was his idea. Lawyers cost money and he couldn’t afford the fees and went into a personal bankruptcy.
The Museum of Failure is a collection of over 100 failed products and services from some of the world’s best-known companies. Visitors will get a insightful and entertaining glimpse into the risky business of innovation. For every mega-success like the Apple iPhone, VCR and Ford Mustang, there’s a couple of Newtons, Betamaxes and Edsels that crashed and burned before them. This collection is carefully curated by licensed psychologist and innovation researcher Dr. Samuel West, and it hopes to convey that the acceptance of failure is necessary in order for innovation and progress to truly succeed.
🤷 ABOUT THE SPEAKER :
Samuel West is the founder of Museum of Failure, a collection of failed products and services. The museum showcases failures to provide visitors a learning experience about the important role of failure for innovation and to encourage organizations to become better at learning from failure.
🤔 WHAT DO WE DO AT OUR ORGANIZATION?
A global movement and series of events where stories of professional failure are shared. Every month, at events around the world, we get three or four people to get up in front of a forum full of strangers to share their stories of professional failure. The story of the business that crashes and burns, the association agreement that is damaged, the product that must be withdrawn from the market, we tell it all.
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