FAIL! - Inspiring Resilience

Viiveck Verma has donned many caps: he spent several years in the corporate world, before becoming a startup ecosystem enabler and partaking in companies across several sectors. Throughout these experiences, he has become convinced that what's most important is to take responsibility for what's going on in your life. In this episodes he recalls three episodes in his life where this attitude became an asset for turning failure into a valuable learning opportunity.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad in March 2019 by E-cell.
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Full transcript: https://fail-sharing.org/podcast/viiveck-verma/

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Nuno Loureiro, Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, and a "relentless practitioner of failure", has no doubt: if you are not failing all the time, you are aiming too low. A philosophy to live by, to shape our perspective on goals and successes.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May 2018 by the VISTA association.
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Full transcript: https://fail-sharing.org/podcast/nuno-loureiro/

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In this installment of "Live chats about stories of resilience" we interview Gretchen Gerzina, professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of several historic biographical studies. Tune in if you would like to hear about building one's sense of identity coming from a biracial background, how to cope with the pressure to be everything for everyone and live up to expectations, and much more ...including an unexpected benefit of ironing.

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Full transcript: https://fail-sharing.org/podcast/gretchen-gerzina/

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Mira Wilczek is President and CEO of Cogo Labs and Senior Partner at Link Ventures. She serves on the Board of Directors at EverQuote, CareDash, and Hopjump, and the Advisory Board of Vestigo Ventures, as well as being co-director at the Brahe Educational Foundation.
Among these many endeavors, she has learned that  being associated with failures is almost as important as being associated with successes because failures hold crucial information about how you will move forward in your life. In this episode she tells us all about how and why one of her startups failed.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in November 2018 by the VISTA association.
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Full transcript: https://fail-sharing.org/podcast/mira-wilczek/

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What we consider our biggest successes can sometimes be failures in disguise. Zabi Khan, animal rights activist and founder of "A place to bark" shares an interesting perspective on the way we measure our achievements with respect to our goals.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad in February 2020 by E-cell.
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Full transcript: https://fail-sharing.org/podcast/zabi-khan/

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We regret the audio quality of this episode. We hope that you will stay and listen to the story of Deborah Blum, director of the Knight Science Journalism Program, and Pulitzer-prize winning science journalist. Familial expectations can cast very long shadows onto our lives, but through the power of reinvention we can gradually build up faith in ourselves and carve our own path.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in November 2018 by the VISTA association.
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Full transcript: https://fail-sharing.org/podcast/deborah-blum/

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An incredible personal journey, started with "bad genes and a bad environment", from homeless college student who failed his studies, to Harvard professor and pioneer of the field of personal genomics: George Church encourages us to find negative examples in our lives - starting from the account of his many shortcomings - to avoid repeating their mistakes in our own lives.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in November 2018 by the VISTA association.
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Full transcript: https://fail-sharing.org/podcast/george-church/

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The voice of doubt can be very loud in our head and preempt us to follow the path we are meant to be on. Eva Wolfangel had to fight this inner voice all along her career as a freelance journalist but ultimately learnt to recognize it and to listen to her own inner voice instead.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in October 2019 by the VISTA association.
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Full transcript: https://fail-sharing.org/podcast/eva-wolfangel/

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Gaurav Sen is a programming enthusiast and Youtuber, passionate about competitive coding and problem-solving and in this talk shares with us 5 stories of failure from his life with candor and humor.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad in February 2020 by E-cell.
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Full transcript: https://fail-sharing.org/podcast/gaurav-sen/

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"Fail well”: it’s not an oxymoron and Amy Edmondson, professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, has a three-step recipe for it. This talk explores the root causes of the different kinds of failures an organization - or an individual - can face, and gives a crash course on how to handle and communicate them in a clever way, an ability which should be acknowledged and rewarded.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in October 2019 by the VISTA association.
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Full transcript: https://fail-sharing.org/podcast/amy-edmondson/

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