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What's your best failure?

Baruch Hen on April 20, 2019

We love talking about our successes, but failure can be also seen as a positive thing rather than just a negative thing. We learn often from our ...
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Thayanne Luiza

I tried a project for 5 months with some friends and failed completely. But it's my best failure because I could learn everything that makes a project fail, such as bad planning, bad leadership and not working in small steps.

Now I have some successful projects thanks to the things I learned from my failure.

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Lucas Olivera

My biggest failure was when I was 12 and had to make a project in Scratch about biology I think. The thing is I had worked on it for over a week and the day before the presentation I deleted the whole project. I had no backups!

Luckily I made more preparation than code so I made it over again in 6 hourse but I'll never forget feeling so dumb haha.