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38 Faculty Matters Summer 2012 Turning failure into success By Lori Baker For almost all innovators, success follows a discouraging string of defeats that would make most of us want to call it quits. Think Walt Disney—fired by a newspaper editor for lacking imagination and having no good ideas—whose early venture The Laugh-O-Gram Studio went bankrupt. Disneyland would later become the world’s favorite magic kingdom. Or think J.K. Rowling, who was rejected by 12 different publishers over the course of a year before her book was accepted—ever since she’s been working her own magic with readers of the phenomenally successful Harry Potter series. Setbacks like these bring to mind Thomas Edison’s famous quote, “If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is just one more step forward.” While most of us don’t accept failure quite so readily as Edison, it’s key to sparking true innovation, says Tim Harford, author of Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure. “Failure is like car crashes—it’s going to happen,” he says. “It’s all a question of how do you learn from it when it does.” And it’s not easy being the brains behind revolutionary innovations in education, either. Oftentimes, radical higher education ideas—including higher education without textbooks, libraries or even college campuses— spark outrage as much as support. Beyond bricks and mortar Flash back to 1976, when University of Phoenix gained accreditation by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The University then began to actively meet the educational needs of working adults in a revolutionary new way. Instead of expecting working adults to drive to a large university campus after work to earn their degree, “we held classes in nontraditional continued on page 40
facultymatters.com 39 “ If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is just one more step forward.” —Thomas Edison
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