THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Failures

“There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.” - Tom Krause

TOPIC OF THE DAY

The Simple Way to Avoid Social Media Failures

With each new technology, there are always a great many mistakes made, at least until we get the hang of it. Richard Nixon, who had great radio appeal, lost the first televised Presidential debate (and subsequently the election) in 1960 to John F. Kennedy because he looked like a train wreck on the small screen. Many of us have fallen prey to the more mundane mistakes that come from accidental emails, texts, and tweets.

The good news is that many of us learn from our mistakes, but only if and when we own up to them. One embarrassing email is usually all it takes for you to triple check your outgoing messages for years. On a larger scale, the death rate from automobiles was 90% higher in 1925 than it is today, because we've learned from our mistakes and have figured out myriad ways to make car travel safer. Even Nixon learned quickly and cleaned up for the remaining debates against Kennedy and eventually won a Presidency (of course another technology — the telephone recorder — ultimately brought him down again).

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