How to Fail Intelligently. How to fail at interviews.

We interviewed real Human Resource executives across the country about the amazingly stupid things people do or say in job interviews, and this video is the first installment illustrating a few of our favorite stories. Did you hear that? People actually did these things in job interviews!

So learn from their mistakes and don't do these things! If you like what you see here, 

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How to Fail Intelligently   Abdiqani Farah

Back in 2007, a friend recommended me to read a book entitled Failing Forward by John Maxwell. 

I listened quite interestingly, while continued to sip my iced coffee in sunny Southern California. 

I remember making calculations as to how dare that friend wanted me to fail while all others 

were up for success. I gave him a straight no. "I am not going to buy failure" I mimicked.

Granted, I was both naive and conservative at the time. I could not even conceive the idea 

of having myself go down a hill to test my temperature and tolerance for the uncertain world. 

I even got scared by the two-word title of the book, let alone read it. 

It never dawned on me that to set myself for failure was part of my greater being.

Make no mistake, failure is part of the human condition. We all fail at some point in life. 

Whether it is a relationship or a business venture, things go awkward. There is nothing to be afraid of. Indeed, the question is not that we will fail, the question is how are we going to fail. 

The best failure is when we do fail intelligently.

Experts on the subject believe that failure and innovation are pretty inseparable. 

That is, "the most inventive people are usually the best at failing forward." 

Basically, we could not light up our houses if Mr. Edison did not fail 9,999 times.

Now, if you are wondering how to fail, here are three ways to fail intelligently.

# 1. Assume that no one is perfect. And because the world flourishes with imperfection, 

it is not wise to expect you, or me, or someone to be perfect. 

This very recipe gives us the power to be human and do wrong. The world's greatest political absurd 

was due to failure. Do not think that world leaders were kidding when they allowed innocents 

to die for the sake of the safety of the rest of the world. They took the leap and failed intelligently.

# 2. Learn how to do mistakes. Above all, learn to how to learn from mistakes/failures. 

You fail when you call your fiancee the wrong time. But unless you learn when not to call your fiancee,

you are learning from it, and thus, not failing intelligently. The idea? 

Never repeat an action the same way if it failed previously. 

Try to acknowledge the previous step and do it differently.

#3. Leave a footprint in your mind, and the minds of others, where it reads something like this: 

I know it doesn't work this way because I tried once. 

Beyond circumstances, our subconscious mind does its business through awareness. 

It never deletes the commands you give. Give your subconscious mind to keep records for you 

by printing footnotes. Your mind has the ability to take you to the next level of success. 

Robert Half was quoted as saying that the "ability is useless unless it's used."

According to Maxwell, the difference between average people and achieving people 

is their perception of and their response to failure. 

Stated differently, failing forward is about to fail intelligently. 

Intelligent failure? "It is a willingness to learn from our mistakes 

and to accept that there is a certain level of risk when trying out a new idea or approach."

If you are still not sure how to failure forward, here are 6 steps on how to do so by Tim Ogilvie. 

The idea here is to set your own alpha failure prototype by focusing on learning and being honest 

about your mistakes. "If YOU want to succeed you need to learn how to fail forward", Irene Becker.

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