hi everyone I’m cherry and I’m very very
scared to be doing this speech she can
probably tell but upon somehow being
persuaded to do this speech I was asked
what it is that I am actually scared of
and I realized it took a while because I
can answer straight away but I realized
that I along with 100% of the people in
this room I’m afraid of failure but
today I want to propose to you that
failure isn’t something that should be
rejected or shied away from it’s a good
thing and I think in fact is pivotal to
the Future failure should be embraced
and I want to illustrate this to a
series of examples the first example
that I want to give is kind of
depressing and it’s one that I read
about in a book called black box
thinking by Matthew Sade and if you
haven’t read this I definitely recommend
it because it changed the way that I
think about failure and about growth and
it starts the story starts in hospital
where a woman goes into hospital for a
totally routine procedure on her nose
and I think the thing is she was having
a gland removed that she was born with
that made her allergic to gluten or
something something totally simple like
this and it’s one of those operations
that happens about 10 times a day and
that you’re told nothing can go wrong
and that there is nothing to worry about
and you’ve probably guessed something
went wrong and the thing was the back of
her throat was too small to fit the
tubing that allowed her to breathe so
they can get they can get breathe
basically and the cells in her brain are
dying for lack of oxygen so around the
operating table there were two doctors
like an anesthetist and a nurse in
attendance and they were all trying
hopelessly – shudders tube into the back
of her through and the nurse in
attendance she knew something that the
doctors had forgotten under the pressure
of time and this was that the protocol
in this situation was to used something
called a tracheostomy which is where you
make an incision in your throat here and
you put the tube in your throat rather
than in your mouth and the doctors time
is slipping away and they’d forgotten
about this procedure and the nurse she’s
stood in the background with a kit in
her hand and
you were scared to speak up and
tragically the woman died for lack of
oxygen to her brain because the nurse
had failed to speak up and whilst a lot
of the people in this room I respond
with exasperation or frustration towards
the nurse I think that more of us than
we would like to admit would have done
the same thing
because she was scared of failure she
was scared of getting it wrong and she
led the pressures of the doctors get her
because she thought I don’t know maybe
they were she thought they were worth
more than her or something but they
weren’t and this I think epitomizes my
point there the fear of failure when it
gets too much is a bad thing we let it
stop us from doing the things which
matter most and from trying new things
and although it’s an extreme example and
in this case it took a life I think that
I could be applied in so many in so many
aspects of life I think it wastes money
and time and I think it can be applied
in the domestic life and in school
failure is something that should be
embraced and the second example I would
like to give to illustrate this is one
that some of us probably know already
and this story starts with a woman who
sets out a five-year goal of herself
and at the end of the five years her
goal is to write a book and she served
herself whatever might happen in the
next five years if I’ve written this
book I will be a success in my eyes and
I will have made myself proud and I
would have done enough to make my family
proud
tragedy tragically her mother died in
1990 and is sent her into a deep
spiraling depression that only seemed to
get worse
she lost her mental health her career
she lost her marriage and her eyes she
had nothing and she called herself the
biggest failure she knew but now I can
tell you that this woman is JK Rowling
and she is one of the most successful
authors in history and I know a lot of
us probably had that example but it’s
one that is a massive inspiration to me
because she showed us that failure is
not the be-all and end-all of life if
any of you have read Harry Potter and I
know miss Fisher has you’ll know that
you might know that the Dementors and
Harry Potter’s are actually based on JK
Rowling’s own depression so she was
somehow able to use her disadvantage to
her advantage this is a massive
inspiration
I’d like to finish with another example
that some of us might ready name and
this is one of Thomas Edison the creator
of the light bulb he literally lit up
our world and he again is a massive role
model of mine but he wasn’t always a
success obviously and it makes sense
because no successful person has never
had their failures or they wouldn’t be
successful the basis of science is
learning on what we do wrong and this
applies for successful people as well
although Edison had over a thousand
unsuccessful attempts at the creation of
the light bulb when a stroke rotation on
his success he said I did not fail 100
times a thousand times and to me this
means that he didn’t see a thousand
failures and what he did there are
thousand points to learn and this is
what makes a difference between the
successful and unsuccessful thank you
for listening
[Applause]
scared to be doing this speech she can
probably tell but upon somehow being
persuaded to do this speech I was asked
what it is that I am actually scared of
and I realized it took a while because I
can answer straight away but I realized
that I along with 100% of the people in
this room I’m afraid of failure but
today I want to propose to you that
failure isn’t something that should be
rejected or shied away from it’s a good
thing and I think in fact is pivotal to
the Future failure should be embraced
and I want to illustrate this to a
series of examples the first example
that I want to give is kind of
depressing and it’s one that I read
about in a book called black box
thinking by Matthew Sade and if you
haven’t read this I definitely recommend
it because it changed the way that I
think about failure and about growth and
it starts the story starts in hospital
where a woman goes into hospital for a
totally routine procedure on her nose
and I think the thing is she was having
a gland removed that she was born with
that made her allergic to gluten or
something something totally simple like
this and it’s one of those operations
that happens about 10 times a day and
that you’re told nothing can go wrong
and that there is nothing to worry about
and you’ve probably guessed something
went wrong and the thing was the back of
her throat was too small to fit the
tubing that allowed her to breathe so
they can get they can get breathe
basically and the cells in her brain are
dying for lack of oxygen so around the
operating table there were two doctors
like an anesthetist and a nurse in
attendance and they were all trying
hopelessly – shudders tube into the back
of her through and the nurse in
attendance she knew something that the
doctors had forgotten under the pressure
of time and this was that the protocol
in this situation was to used something
called a tracheostomy which is where you
make an incision in your throat here and
you put the tube in your throat rather
than in your mouth and the doctors time
is slipping away and they’d forgotten
about this procedure and the nurse she’s
stood in the background with a kit in
her hand and
you were scared to speak up and
tragically the woman died for lack of
oxygen to her brain because the nurse
had failed to speak up and whilst a lot
of the people in this room I respond
with exasperation or frustration towards
the nurse I think that more of us than
we would like to admit would have done
the same thing
because she was scared of failure she
was scared of getting it wrong and she
led the pressures of the doctors get her
because she thought I don’t know maybe
they were she thought they were worth
more than her or something but they
weren’t and this I think epitomizes my
point there the fear of failure when it
gets too much is a bad thing we let it
stop us from doing the things which
matter most and from trying new things
and although it’s an extreme example and
in this case it took a life I think that
I could be applied in so many in so many
aspects of life I think it wastes money
and time and I think it can be applied
in the domestic life and in school
failure is something that should be
embraced and the second example I would
like to give to illustrate this is one
that some of us probably know already
and this story starts with a woman who
sets out a five-year goal of herself
and at the end of the five years her
goal is to write a book and she served
herself whatever might happen in the
next five years if I’ve written this
book I will be a success in my eyes and
I will have made myself proud and I
would have done enough to make my family
proud
tragedy tragically her mother died in
1990 and is sent her into a deep
spiraling depression that only seemed to
get worse
she lost her mental health her career
she lost her marriage and her eyes she
had nothing and she called herself the
biggest failure she knew but now I can
tell you that this woman is JK Rowling
and she is one of the most successful
authors in history and I know a lot of
us probably had that example but it’s
one that is a massive inspiration to me
because she showed us that failure is
not the be-all and end-all of life if
any of you have read Harry Potter and I
know miss Fisher has you’ll know that
you might know that the Dementors and
Harry Potter’s are actually based on JK
Rowling’s own depression so she was
somehow able to use her disadvantage to
her advantage this is a massive
inspiration
I’d like to finish with another example
that some of us might ready name and
this is one of Thomas Edison the creator
of the light bulb he literally lit up
our world and he again is a massive role
model of mine but he wasn’t always a
success obviously and it makes sense
because no successful person has never
had their failures or they wouldn’t be
successful the basis of science is
learning on what we do wrong and this
applies for successful people as well
although Edison had over a thousand
unsuccessful attempts at the creation of
the light bulb when a stroke rotation on
his success he said I did not fail 100
times a thousand times and to me this
means that he didn’t see a thousand
failures and what he did there are
thousand points to learn and this is
what makes a difference between the
successful and unsuccessful thank you
for listening
[Applause]
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