{"id":645115,"date":"2013-03-04T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=72227"},"modified":"2013-03-04T11:03:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T16:03:35","slug":"8-talks-about-learning-from-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645115","title":{"rendered":"8 talks about learning from failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AllanAllan Savory isn\u2019t afraid to own up to the \u201cgreatest blunder\u201d of his life. In his incredible talk from TED2013<\/a>, Savory shares his life\u2019s work managing grasslands in Africa, weaving a gripping tale out of what seems like an unlikely topic. \"AllanAllan Savory: How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change<\/span><\/a>\u00a0In the 1950s, Savory helped create large national parks in Africa. But as people left this land to make way for animal reserves, Savory and his team noticed the land deteriorating and quickly turning into desert. After careful analysis, they determined that the problem was an over-abundance of elephants. And so in a politically heated move, they shot 40,000 elephants in order to save the grasslands.<\/p>\n

Only, it didn\u2019t work. Even with all these elephants killed, the grassland deterioration only got worse. In a powerful moment in the talk, Savory expresses his dismay.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the saddest and greatest blunder of my life,\u201d he said. \u201cI will carry that to my grave.\u201d<\/p>\n

To hear how Savory, over the next few decades, found real solutions to the problem of desertification — one that involves livestock — watch his talk<\/a>. Here, other bold speakers who\u2019ve owned up to mistakes or expressed what they\u2019ve learned from failure.<\/p>\n