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The Power of Sharing your Failure

Sharing a failure feels risky — which is exactly why it pays off so much when someone does it anyway. Move the slider and see for yourself how the effect changes the more openly we deal with our fuckups.

The imbalance

How many people around you know about your biggest professional Fuckup?

4people

How many know about your biggest professional Success?

28people

Your success is 7× more visible than your fuckup.

The superspreader

Mathematician Holger Dambeck shows that everyone is connected to everyone else by an average of 6.6 degrees. Share your fuckup, and the lesson inside it spreads on its own.

1,409people could end up hearing about it≈ a full concert hall

You share your fuckup with1

Each of them passes it on to3

A shared fuckup isn't an admission of weakness — it's a lesson that travels.

This is the force people feel live at our Fuckup Nights — when real stories change a room.

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