{"id":24443,"date":"2014-02-26T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T05:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24443"},"modified":"2014-02-25T12:02:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T17:02:56","slug":"the-up-side-of-down-why-failing-well-is-the-key-to-success-featuring-the-author-megan-mcardle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/26\/the-up-side-of-down-why-failing-well-is-the-key-to-success-featuring-the-author-megan-mcardle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success&#8221; (featuring the author, Megan McArdle)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6u5wLLW6lPk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 25 Feb 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Featuring the author Megan McArdle, Columnist, <em>Bloomberg View<\/em>; with comments by Brink Lindsey, Vice President for Research, Cato Institute; moderated by Dalibor Rohac, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody likes to fail, yet failure is a ubiquitous element of our lives. According to Megan McArdle, failing often \u2014 and well \u2014 is an important source of learning for individuals, organizations, and governments. Although failure is critical in coping with complex environments, our cognitive biases often keep us from drawing the correct lessons and adjusting our behavior. Our psychological aversion to failure can compound its undesirable effects, McArdle argues, and transform failures into catastrophes.<\/p>\n<p>Video produced by Blair Gwaltney.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 25 Feb 2014 Featuring the author Megan McArdle, Columnist, Bloomberg View; with comments by Brink Lindsey, Vice President for Research, Cato Institute; moderated by Dalibor Rohac, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute. Nobody likes to fail, yet failure is a ubiquitous element of our lives. According to Megan McArdle, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,25],"tags":[156,174,428,359],"class_list":["post-24443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","tag-fail","tag-innovation","tag-marketing","tag-uncertainty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6mf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24444,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24443\/revisions\/24444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}