What do Post-it notes and pacemakers have in common?
They were the new ideas that came out of failures.
Post-it notes were created following their inventor’s failed search for a strong glue. The “weak glue” gave us this marvelous invention.
The inventor of the pacemaker was building a device to record heart sounds when he pulled the wrong resistor out of a box. His “oops” gave us the pacemaker.
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat in the presidential defeat inspired many other women to run for public office… and win!
What adversity are you facing that might bring into the world something amazing?
(I learned these insights and more from Emily and Amelia Nagoski’s book Burnout. I like what I’ve read so far.)