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NPR: Talk of the Nation Failure
"Guests:
Jason Zasky

- Editor and CEO of Failure Magazine

Nicholas Hall

- Founder, Startupfailures.com, a support site for those going through startup failures

Dr. Stephen Goldbart

- Clinical Psychologist
- Co-founder of the Money, Meaning & Choices Institute

Dan O'Brien

- Former decathelete, failed to qualify for 1992 Olympics

There's no getting around the fact that the word 'failure' has a negative connotation. But despite a culture that celebrates acheiving material success at a young age, failure is becoming hip-- at least in some circles. Three quarters of the dot-com startups burning up the stock exchange fail in 3-5 years, but young entrepeneurs plug on until they find that successful venture. And until they get there, they wear their failures as a badge of honor, a measure of how cutting edge they are. Join Juan Williams and guests for a look at the meaning of failure in the year 2000."

redux [07.17.00]
NPR : All Things Considered Failure
"A new magazine arrives on-line today, after a few false starts. Failure magazine is, as its title implies, about failure: battles lost, sports blunders, products that didn't catch on. The fact that someone would even come up with an idea for such a magazine suggests that, in an age when dot-coms come and go like buses, the very notion of failure may not have the stigma it once did when Willie Loman first walked the boards."
redux [06.03.00]
The New York Times Magazine I'm a Loser
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"If you go back to the early 1800's, to be a failure meant basically one thing: to go bankrupt in business. Today if we say I feel like such a failure, we think generally of someone who's a loser, somebody who has so me defect in his personality. The meaning of failure has fundamentally changed from being a crisis you pass through to being more of an identity. My understanding of the failure ethic in Silicon Valley is that the profits of success are so enormous that the risk of failing is worth it."

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