Amy Edmondson
speaker
344 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Amy Edmondson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He just kept going.
And when a lab assistant, I think, attempting to be
supportive, said, gosh, all these failures must be very hard for you, sir.
He responded, failures?
I haven't failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Yeah, he completely understood the concept of intelligent failure.
You have a goal, you've done your homework, you've used the knowledge you have from your prior experiences, from available literature, from everything you can get your hands on,
And then you reach that point where there is no way to go forward other than by trying it out, acting, having an experiment.
And then lo and behold, again, you were wrong.
But fortunately, you're wrong behind closed doors or you're wrong at a small scale.
You know, you haven't caused real harm.
You haven't blown anything up.
Well, it means different things in different contexts.
If you're a scientist hoping to make an important discovery and publish in a journal, it's about being up to date on the most recent research so that you're really in new territory.
If you're going on a blind date with a friend of a friend, you have asked that friend, well, tell me about this person, right?
What do they like to do?
You've found out as much as you can before agreeing to go spend time with them.
Well, they were trying to get RNA, the double-stranded helix of RNA, to separate.
And they tried various different reagents, which didn't work.
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