Avoiding Failure?

Harvard FAS

Avoiding failure? Where will your own life be if you avoid failure? What allows us to overcome and benefit from the inevitable failures in creative endeavors? Why is failure so critical for innovations and creative achievement—for individuals and societies? The seminar charts the biography of an idea about the improbable foundations of creative undertakings. There is ample literature to suggest that our most iconic creative endeavors are not purely achievements, but conversions, corrections…