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- When we talk about failure,

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I actually really couch
it a different way.

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It's called discovery.

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If you do this right, you will try

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many different ideas to solve a problem.

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If you try 10 ideas, maybe
eight of them will not work.

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Okay, that could be couched as failure.

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I consider it discovery.

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I've discovered what does not work.

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Thomas Edison was famous for this one.

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He has a quote, to paraphrase him,

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when he invented the light bulb,

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they said how were you such a genius?

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He said, I wasn't a genius.

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I just found the 5,000
ways it would not work,

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and eventually I stumbled
on the way it did work.

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And that's the kind of courage
that I'm talking about.

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It's the willingness
to be able to discover,

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and if you don't find the
solution the first time,

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you don't get discouraged,
and you're not afraid

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that your boss or your peers
are gonna look at you and say

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that person did not succeed.

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Instead, you say, no, I just
discovered what doesn't work,

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and I'm gonna find a way of solving this.

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