“If we understand that the world is a complex system with unknowable relationships, we know failure is completely unavoidable.” - Greg Hart
Failure Failure is defined as (but not limited to be defined as) according to the Oxford Dictionary : •
lack of success in doing or achieving something
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a person or thing that is not successful
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an act of not doing something, especially something that you are expected to do
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the state of not working correctly or as expected; an occasion when this happens
Greg Hart, Design Partner at Thin Air Labs joins Krista Malden, Publisher of Community Now! Magazine to explore failure. K: How do you define failure? G: Two version of the definition: 1. There is a nuance here between what is known and what is not. For instance, the standard definition of failure applies to what is known. For example, if someone has a lot of experience climbing steps in their house and then falls on those steps, it is considered a failure. If someone is 22 // Community Now!
supposed to know the answer to a question and they can’t remember or say it incorrectly, they have failed. If someone sets out to become the gold medalist in their sport and falls short, we say ’they failed at reaching their objective.’ Or even in language. Grammar has rules and we can fail to execute against them even when we know the correct application. For instance, writing the question, ‘Are their any people who believe this?’ is technically wrong and I’ve failed to use the right version of ’there.’ But can you
