Persistence is of paramount importance to actualize the disruptive power of your ideas. Mariana Castells, clinician and researcher allergist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, faced multiple rejections of her research, because it went against the current dogma. Ultimately she got full recognition, which meant the possibility for her work to impact the lives of many patients worldwide.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May 2018 by the VISTA association.
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In this episode Arthur Bahr, professor of Literature at MIT, shares how he relied on the lessons learned while training as a figure skater to cope during the worst year of his life, bringing a powerful reflection on how imperfection is ultimately what gives life forward momentum.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May 2018 by the VISTA association.
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Rejection can spark a journey of self-awareness which will ultimately strengthen resolve in our goals and confidence in our qualities and drivers. Yang Shao-Horn is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and in this episode shares the story her career path, with its many ups and downs, turns, rejections, and successes.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in October 2019 by the VISTA association.
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Susan Silbey spent 16 years as a Ph.D. student, which, as she puts it, “was not the career of a star”. An adventure of professional growth as well as personal growth, which led her to become professor of anthropology at the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in April 2019 by the VISTA association.
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Ramesk Raskar, professor at MIT Media Lab, warns us that we need to learn to recognize the signs conspiring to make us fail, in order to become a pathfinder for ourselves and our team in the career jungle.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in October 2019 by the VISTA association.
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As a parent, you cannot let your guard down even for a moment. Kirsty Bennett, manager of the MIT Women’s League and the founder of MITell, shares with us a story in which the pressure of "mothering in public" added an additional strain on an already difficult situation.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May 2018 by the VISTA association.
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BBC’s top 100 inspirational and innovative women, Fortune’s 40 under 40 are a few among the many lists Aditi Awasthi has made into after she founded Embibe, a technology and AI driven platform for education. In this inspiring talk, Aditi talks about the challenges she faced on her path to becoming the CEO of the world’s largest AI platform in education.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad in March 2019 by E-cell.
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Fear of failure grows with your achievements and has the power to ruin your life. Listen to the thoughtful reflection of Daniel Jackson, professor of Computer Science at MIT, photographer, and author of "Portraits of resilience".

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May 2018 by the VISTA association.
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We regret the audio quality of this episode. We hope that you will stay and listen to the lessons Muriel Médard learnt form horse riding and teaching her very first class to students, on her path to become professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, with a divide-and-conquer approach and determination not to refuse the obstacles in life.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in November 2018 by the VISTA association.
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Sara Seager is Professor of Planetary Science, Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. In this talk she recalls a very exciting and ambitious of project from her early career, where the enthusiasm and drive of two young scientists came to clash with unforgiving competition.

This Episode was recorded at a FAIL! event organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in October 2019 by the VISTA association.
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