April 06, 2017
The Unexpected Benefit of Celebrating Faiilure
April 06, 2017The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure Astro Teller , the head of X (formerly Google X) shares about the unexpected and unconve...
The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure
Astro Teller, the head of X (formerly Google X) shares about the unexpected and unconventional approach they have at the moonshot factory:
- Breaking things, instead of building things
- Proving you're wrong, instead of proving you're right
- Doing the hardest part of the problem first, instead of doing the easiest
- Thinking about how to kill your project, instead of how to keep your project alive
- Making failure safe, instead of dangerous
- Rewarding failure, instead of successes
- Crazy ideas, instead of sensible ideas
At X, people try their best to fail. They receive applause, hugs, high fives, promotions and bonuses whenever they kill a project.
It may seem counter-intuitive but perhaps we should ask ourselves - how do we succeed at failing?
