How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency (Update)

Everyone makes mistakes. How do we learn from them? Lessons from the classroom, the Air Force, and the world’s deadliest infectious disease. (Part four of a four-part series.)

SOURCES:Will Coleman • , founder and C.E.O. of Alto. Amy Edmondson • , professor of leadership management at Harvard Business School. Babak Javid • , physician-scientist and associate director of the University of California, San Francisco Center for Tuberculosis. Gary Klein • , cognitive psychologist and pioneer in the field of naturalistic decision making. Theresa MacPhail • , medical anthropologist and associate professor of science & technology studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Roy Shalem • , lecturer at Tel Aviv University. Samuel West • , curator and founder of The Museum of Failure.

RESOURCES: • " A Golf Club Urinal, Colgate Lasagna and the Bitter Fight Over the Museum of Failure • ," by Zusha Elinson (Wall Street Journal, • 2025). Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well, • by Amy Edmondson (2023). • “ You Think Failure Is Hard? So Is Learning From It • ,” by Lauren Eskreis-Winkler and Ayelet Fishbach ( Perspectives on Psychological Science, • 2022). • “ The Market for R&D Failures • ,” by Manuel Trajtenberg and Roy Shalem ( SSRN, • 2010). • “ Performing a Project Premortem • ,” by Gary Klein ( Harvard Business Review, • 2007).

EXTRAS: • " The Deadliest Disease in Human History • ," by People I (Mostly) Admire • (2025). • “ How to Succeed at Failing • ,” series by Freakonomics Radio • (2023). • “ Moncef Slaoui: ‘It’s Unfortunate That It Takes a Crisis for This to Happen • ,'” by People I (Mostly) Admire • (2020).

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