{"id":639638,"date":"2013-01-22T19:44:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T00:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=67886"},"modified":"2013-01-23T11:03:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T16:03:20","slug":"why-you-need-to-fail-to-have-a-great-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/639638","title":{"rendered":"Why you need to fail to have a great career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='586' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hNQRRsL3R4A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedxuw.com\/\">TEDxUW<\/a> 2011, economics professor Larry Smith gave a memorable talk titled, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/larry_smith_why_you_will_fail_to_have_a_great_career.html\">Why you will fail to have a great career<\/a>.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/larry_smith_why_you_will_fail_to_have_a_great_career.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/5954298483fb3ea53b8741d12b54d876e3494d20_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a>The hilarious talk takes aim at people and the incredible excuses they dream up for not pursuing their passions, from \u201cIt\u2019s too hard\u201d to \u201cBut I value human relationships more than my work.\u201d His talk was a call for people to get out of their own way and at least try.<\/p>\n<p>At this year\u2019s event, entrepreneur Michael Litt gave his reaction to Smith\u2019s talk, titled, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=hNQRRsL3R4A\">Why you <i>have<\/i> to fail to have a great career<\/a>.\u201d His idea: that failure provides the ultimate experience needed for success &#8212; learning to get up and dust yourself off after a fall. Watch above to hear Litt\u2019s candid telling of a time he failed professionally, big time. Since being posting on December 23, this talk has been watched more than 41,000 times &#8212; and with good reason.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/67886\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/67886\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=67886&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/Ka_iMm1dUB0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At TEDxUW 2011, economics professor Larry Smith gave a memorable talk titled, \u201cWhy you will fail to have a great career.\u201d Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great careerThe hilarious talk takes aim at people and the incredible excuses they dream up for not pursuing their passions, from \u201cIt\u2019s too hard\u201d to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}