On Failure, a podcast for the happy medium of Anti-Successes.



 


Episode 1: Failure is not a bad word. 



Act I: The fear of failure 
What happens if you can’t even get started? We address the failure that comes from the fear of failure by talking with civil engineering major at the University of Washington, Martha Quigg. 

Act II: Learning to fail 
 How do we overcome? Psychotherapist Ricardo Higaldo tells us about the Montessori method then we follow actor Mikko Juan on his unconventional career trajectory. 


“And I’ve grown up thinking it was all black and white: There’s right; there’s wrong. But then I got into theatre and it’s just a huge conglomeration of grey.”- Mikko Juan, Actor.



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Act III: Creation 
What if failure isn’t a bad thing? In the last portion of this segment we re-define with Vincent Van Gogh as our teacher: the relativity of failure and success. 






Visiting the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

 
If you want to experience as Shelby did, put on your headphones in a crowded area and play this...
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Sometimes the chaos is unvoidable. Sometimes the external pressure feels harder than you can handle. Our advice is to go inwards. The courage is there; you just have to channel it. Tune in to your own internal voice and let everything else fade to the background. To make it a little easier, we created a list of music to help jumpstart this process.  

Oh, and remember: It’s okay if you fail, too. Just make sure to get back up & keep failing. Fail over and over until your gallery of mistakes becomes your gallery of triumphs.



“In the realm of art, failure has a different currency.”

- Lisa Le Feuvre; writer, curator and editor.