Fail Constructively

In this video, economist and author Tim Harford, author ofAdapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failureteaches an important lesson about succeeding at failure through the story of psychologist Leon Festinger’s infiltration of a cult led by Dorothy Martin in 1954.

Festinger studied the cult members’ reaction to Martin’s false prophecy that the world would be destroyed the following day.Harford uses this example to illustrate the concept of cognitive dissonance.

A Successful Mindset

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