FAILED & BORED CONFERENCE

TURN FAILURE INTO SUCCESS

BOREDOM INTO INNOVATION

in the Heart of the Alps, Innsbruck, Austria.

The world these days is a competitive place where success is the only currency that counts. Failure, which is usually considered the opposite of success, or even an obstacle on the road to it, is seen as something to be avoided at all costs. But are our failures always such disasters? Not necessarily – and it may well be time to review our opinions about failure as a concept. Contrary to popular belief, failure actually isn’t the opposite of success, but rather a necessary part of it. Failure doesn’t need to be avoided. Instead, it should be embraced, because we can learn from it and become stronger in the future as a result. 

What to expect:

We will spend the first half of our day shining lights on positive and negative aspects of failure in our scientific lives. How much failure is a good amount and how do we cope with failure? We will learn why failure can be a good thing. We will see why failure is an opportunity, what it can teach you and how you can overcome it. Learning to fail today will help you be successful tomorrow!
In the afternoon session, the speakers will present aspects of boredom in our daily lives in order to broaden our perspective on matters. We will show whether boredom is exclusively bad or not. How can we avoid it eventually? Isn't the life of a researcher sometimes boring? We have to write reports and read papers; it is inevitable to repeat experiments and reproduce results. When we start a project it is very exciting, but after time passes by the fascination often fades. Also what is very interesting to one person might be rather boring to another. Our interest in a subject has everything to do with how we approach it. So, anything could be interesting :) 
So, we will look at the mundane and overlooked phenomena in research which is often viewed as useless and unnecessary, but when analyzed more precisely unveils itself to be genuinely captivating. 

Failed & Bored provides a positive perspective on failure and boredom in science and business. This conference draws on MCAA fellows success stories and literary anecdotes to explain the importance of failure & ordinary subjects in research, the advantages of embracing it and the power of leveraging your mistakes to stimulate personal growth.

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No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

-Anthony Robbins

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

-Thomas Edison

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