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FAILURE: The Science of Learning From Your Mistakes

The Next Big Idea

The Concept of Elite Failure Practitioners and the Inventions of Jim West

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This chapter explores the concept of elite failure practitioners, focusing on inventor Jim West and his 250 patents for acoustic inventions. It highlights how failure is a necessary part of the process and discusses West's revolutionary invention of the electric microphone.

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