This document lists 21 ways to learn from failures. It suggests embracing failures as learning opportunities rather than mistakes. Failures teach what doesn't work and open doors to new possibilities. Examples are given of innovators like Steve Jobs and Einstein who achieved success despite early failures. The document advocates taking risks, learning from worst practices, publishing failures, and getting customer feedback to improve. It argues you don't have to be first, and gives examples of businesses that achieved success despite others initially failing with similar models. Overall it promotes a learning perspective on failures rather than seeing them as defeats.

1. 21 ways to learn
from failures

2. 1. The difference between
failures and mistakes

3. Seth Godin:
“A failure is a project that doesn't work, an initiative that
teaches you something at the same time the outcome
doesn't move you directly closer to your goal.
A mistake is either a failure repeated, doing something for
the second time when you should have known better, or a
misguided attempt (because of carelessness, selfishness
or hubris) that hindsight reminds you is worth avoiding.
We need a lot more failures, I think. Failures that don't kill
us make us bolder, and teach us one more way that won't
work, while opening the door to things that might.”
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/12/the-difference-between-a-failure-and-a-mistake.html

4. 2. Avoid stupid mistakes

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7. 3. You can't make an omelette
without breaking eggs

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11. 4. Take action

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14. 5. Take more risks

15. Jump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voB6WiP83NU

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17. 6. Dare to dream

18. The future of the mobile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx2Slxp0TkM

19. Wrong predictions
Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring
at a plywood box every night. Darryl Zanuck, movie producer,
20th Century Fox, 1946
Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil?
You're crazy. Associates of Edwin L. Drake refusing his suggestion
to drill for oil in 1859.
Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop—because
women like to get out of the house, like to handle merchandise,
like to be able to change their minds. Time, 1966, in one sentence
writing off e-commerce long before anyone had ever heard of it.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Incorrect_predictions

20. 7. No success without flops

21. 7 Products Steve Jobs Got Wrong
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/25/steve-jobs-apple-flops_n_936038.html#s339143&title=1_Apple_III

22. Einstein’s Mistakes
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/sep/01-einstein.s-23-biggest-mistakes

23. 8. Mistakes that worked

24. 10 examples
http://www.antibodycommunications.com/corporate/Top10Mistakes.pdf

25. Leaning Tower of Pisa

26. 9. Serendipity: happy accidents

27. Famous examples
http://www.squidoo.com/serendipity-luck-coincidence#module18053372

28. Famous examples
http://www.squidoo.com/serendipity-luck-coincidence#module18053372

29. 10. Use new words

30. Nearling
A nearling is a positive word for something new that you did with
the right intentions, which has not (yet) led to the right result.
The reasons for nearlings not to succeed can be diverse, the
circumstances have changed; a better option has been chosen; you
made an error; faith decided differently; there suddenly were other
priorities, etc.
Until this moment there was no right English word for this
phenomenum. There is the word 'failure', yet that sounded
negative. You only recognize a nearling when you look back. You
can always learn from a nearling. The nearling fills a gap in the
international innovation language.
http://www.newshoestoday.com/site/offerings/nearling

31. Nearling
http://www.newshoestoday.com/site/offerings/nearling

32. 11. Forget best practices, learn
from worst practices

33. Failure week
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16879336

34. 12. Make fun of failures

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37. 13. Publish your failures

38. Journal of Errology
http://bioflukes.com/JoE

39. 14. Forget perfection

40. Perfection quote
Striving for excellence motivates
you; striving for perfection is
demoralizing.
Harriet Braiker

41. Beta

42. 15. Love customer feedback

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Dear Yellow Pages, see this big stack of unclaimed telephone books?
NOBODY WANTS THEM. Please stop killing trees and GET A NEW
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BUSINESS MODEL.”

45. 16. You don’t have to be the first

46. Malcom Gladwell
http://scene.yahoo.net/cannes-2011/seminars/seminars-articles/when-being-third-is-better-than-being-first

47. 17. Learn from failed business
models

48. Board of innovation
http://www.slideshare.net/boardofinnovation/7-business-models-that-got-shot-in-2011-by-nickdemey-11109603

49. 18. Never give up

50. Famous failures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6hz_s2XIAU

51. Think different
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oAB83Z1ydE

52. 19. Final

54. 20. More ways for innovation

55. http://www.slideshare.net/marcnewshoestoday/slideshows

56. 21. About us

57. http://www.ideadj.com marc@newshoestoday.com