In "Failure Stories," we demystify what we so often refuse to mention when talking about our educational and professional lives. We name, analyze, and try to understand what it means to fail, how it motivates us, and how our happier success stories are often made up of many failures along the way.
In this episode, Mika talks with Sarah Renberg, a University of Michigan honors student, an athlete, and a brain injury survivor about her injury, recovery, and the strategies Sarah has used to overcome the constant challenges she faces. Sarah talks about how she learned to read again and how to be an honors student. They discuss the ambiguity of failure: what is a failure? what is an accident? what is a tragedy? Sarah explains why she is not interested in the blame game.
In the first episode of Failure Stories, Mika talks about his favorite failure story -- an F on a calculus midterm -- and picks the brain of Joy Pehlke, a wellness coach at the University of Michigan and another person who has learned from her failures. They compare notes on their academic and athletic failures and realize that sometimes it's hard to know what exactly the failure is. They also talk about the need to be more open and transparent -- especially with students -- about failures.
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