Feel Like a Failure? It May Be a Good Thing

“Megan McArdle: Why Failing Well is the Key to Success,”
is an interview by Nick Gillespie and produced by Todd Krainin.
About 2 minutes. Original release date was
April 25, 2014 and original writeup is below.

“There’s nothing as dangerous as perfect safety,” says Megan
McArdle, author of the new book, The
Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well is the Key to
Success.

Failure is inevitable, says McArdle, who’s also a Bloomberg
View columnist. But how we handle our own failures
and whether we learn from them go a long way in shaping
individuals, institutions, and entire societies.

Drawing on personal anecdotes, current events, literature, and
cutting-edge research, McArdle dissects our beliefs, myths, and
cognitive biases about failure.

View this article.