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Treat life as an experiment. Quote:

Take risks frequently, and be prepared in case the resulting action fails to meet your expectations. Fail forward, and there will be learning from your mistakes along the way.

This is innovation expert, author and IDEO general manager Tom Kelley talking at Stanford University a couple of months ago. Click here for the source video and, if you possibly can, listen to the rest of it.

Tom Kelley, Treat Life as an Experiment

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One Response to “A Great Phrase: Fail Forward”

1. Allow me to reintroduce myself. « Chris J. Karr: Weblog Says:
   February 6th, 2009 at 3:32 pm

   [...] school, leaving a doctoral program with a master’s degree. I like to think of it as “failing forward“. I’m not being forced out of the program by anyone in it, rather, I decided late last [...]

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