Chapter 10 Questions
+ Voices from the Story and Referenced Resources
Think about it
- Is failure important? Or are we glorifying failure?
- Think about a time when you failed. Was it good failure or bad failure?
- What can you learn from failure?
- How can you become more resilient in the face of setbacks?
Think about it
- Option One: Hitch a ride with Nature Labs! Reflect on this lesson and take a (virtual) drive through your classroom: Mount Robson Provincial Park!
- Option Two: Actually go outside. For real. Go for a nature walk in your community to reflect on this class with your friends or family.
- Option Three: Do both!
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Referenced Resources
- Never, never, never give up quote
- The 15 Biggest Comebacks in Sports
- Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
- Celebrity Comebacks
- 5 Tips to Hustle Your Way to Success
- Relax, the only person who expects you to be perfect is you
- The perfectionism trap
- The Fat Project: Calgary man a year into social media weight-loss journey
- The FAT Project is over. The FAT Project has failed.
- Alphabet | Google
- Meta
- What are the FAANG companies?
- Top 40 Under 40: Paul McIntyre Royston
- Grand River Hospital Foundation names new CEO
- Calgary Public Library names Shared History Centre after $1M donation
- Olympic glory, five to eight years away
- Canada can't settle for bronze in business, says WIND Mobile founder
- Canadian Olympic Foundation
- Calgary Public Library
- How Will the Role of Public Libraries Be Changed?
- How libraries can help newcomers adjust to life in Canada
- Grand River Hospital Foundation
- Hospital foundations continue to help Alberta's health-care system. Here's how they work
- Grandmaster Flash; The glorification of failure
- Not All Failure Should Be Celebrated
- People Say Failure Is Good for You. They're Wrong
- There is Good Failure and Bad Failure
- Good Fails, Bad Fails, and How to Know the Difference
- Strategies for Learning from Failure
- Why Silicon Valley Loves Failures
- The World's Largest Tech Companies in 2022
- The Wildly Appealing, Totally Doomed Future of Work
- To boost Canadian innovation, resist the lure of Silicon Valley
- Bias in science funding favours big Canadian universities
- The tyranny of the majority
- The 'Fail Fast' Method Has Failed Silicon Valley
- What the world shouldn't learn from Silicon Valley
- Why Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Be the Model for Innovation
- How to stick with it when your ideas are ahead of their time
- Dev Aujla
- Change-Maker Dev Aujla on Doing Well and Doing Good
- What do you need to learn from your next job?
- Tools for Transitions—Just Ahead Mentors, Jealousy Antidotes, and Powerful Small Steps to Find Jobs (or Clients) with Dev Aujla
- An Extraordinary President and His Remarkable Cabinet: An interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin about Lincoln's Team of Rivals
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- Leadership Lessons from Abraham Lincoln
- How Winston Churchill And The Conservative Party Lost The 1945 Election
- When a winner becomes a loser: Winston Churchill was kicked out of office in the British election of 1945
- Winston Churchill back in office - archive, 1951
- Winston Churchill resigns as Britain’s prime minister, April 5, 1955
- The mistakes of Winston Churchill, 1966
- How Winston Churchill, the war time hero failed in peace
- Churchill The Failure: The Paradoxical Truth About The Best And Worst Leaders
- Why Success Often Breeds Failure
- Why Leaders Don’t Learn from Success
- Ranked: World Leaders Who Have Overstayed Their Welcome
- Why business leaders should not become cult figures
- The world leaders who refuse to leave the stage
- Evo Morales: indigenous leader who changed Bolivia but stayed too long
- Tories trampled in Liberal landslide
- A historic Tory defeat in 1993 election
- Social Networking is a life’s highlight reel, not the whole story
- Stop Comparing Your Behind-the-Scenes With Everyone's Highlight Reel
- Elon Musk: The Inspirational Success Story Of Tesla’s CEO
- How Elon Musk Failed Before He Succeeded
- As Twitter Crumbles Under Musk’s Touch, Questions Emerge About His Leadership At Tesla And SpaceX
- Elon Musk Is Running Twitter Like a Failing Newspaper Business
- Elon Musk regained the title of 'world's richest man.' Here's how the billionaire went from getting bullied as a child to becoming one of the most successful and controversial men in tech.
- Elon Musk: South African entrepreneur Elon Musk is known for founding Tesla Motors and SpaceX, which launched a landmark commercial spacecraft in 2012.
- Bramalea