We are all encouraged to work hard and succeed in life. But failure is still a common part of everyone's lives. Perhaps you are afraid of failure, or even think it's shameful to fail. If you visit the Museum of Failure in Shanghai, you might change your mind.
Samuel West, a Swedish psychologist (心理学家), founded the museum. The museum displays more than 100 failed products. Some of them were made by the most famous and successful companies in the world. For example, in 1993, Apple released the Newton MessagePad which could be used to take electronic notes by hand. But it couldn't recognize handwriting very well. Apple stopped making it in 1997. Coca-Cola once developed a coffee-flavored soda in 2006. The company wanted to catch up with people's growing love for coffee, but the product was taken off the market in 2008.
West said the failed products are not displayed to make fun of these companies. He thinks success stories are all similar. He is tired of reading and hearing the same boring stories. As German-American physicist Albert Einstein once said, "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
This idea has been welcomed by many big companies. Silicon Valley, for example, is home to some of the world's most innovative(革新的) tech companies. A common slogan there is, "Fail fast, fail often." There are reasons for this. "The best are those that encourage failure, embrace(拥抱) out-of-the-box thinking, and allow employees to make mistakes and see what happens," Simon Casuto wrote for Forbes.
It seems that failure isn't always a bad thing. The key is whether or not you can learn from your mistakes.
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