How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency (Update)
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Everyone makes mistakes. How do we learn from them? Lessons from the classroom, the Air Force, and the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

• SOURCES:

• Will Coleman), founder and C.E.O. of Alto.

• Amy Edmondson), professor of leadership management at Harvard Business School.

• Babak Javid), physician-scientist and associate director of the University of California, San Francisco Center for Tuberculosis.

• Gary Klein), cognitive psychologist and pioneer in the field of naturalistic decision making.

• Theresa MacPhail), medical anthropologist and associate professor of science & technology studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology.

• Roy Shalem), lecturer at Tel Aviv University.

• Samuel West), curator and founder of The Museum of Failure.

• RESOURCES:

• "A Golf Club Urinal, Colgate Lasagna and the Bitter Fight Over the Museum of Failure)," by Zusha Elinson (Wall Street Journal, 2025).

• Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well)*, *by Amy Edmondson (2023).

• “You Think Failure Is Hard? So Is Learning From It),” by Lauren Eskreis-Winkler and Ayelet Fishbach (*Perspectives on Psychological Science, *2022).

• “The Market for R&D Failures),” by Manuel Trajtenberg and Roy Shalem (*SSRN, *2010).

• “Performing a Project Premortem),” by Gary Klein (*Harvard Business Review, *2007).

• EXTRAS:

• "The Deadliest Disease in Human History)," by *People I (Mostly) Admire *(2025).

• “How to Succeed at Failing),” series by *Freakonomics Radio *(2023).

• “Moncef Slaoui: ‘It’s Unfortunate That It Takes a Crisis for This to Happen),'” by *People I (Mostly) Admire *(2020).