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Come on, Maximus.

I know we can do this.

We've got to.

At last, Mr. Smarty Pants.

Take them away.

Hold it right there, Siegfried.

At this very moment, a well armed SWAT team is coming to this very location.

I don't believe you.

Failure, Maximus, don't give up so quickly.

You're right.

99.9.

How about a well-trained canine unit?

No failure.

Try again.

How about an angry soccer mom with a baseball bat?

No failure.

Max.

You're right.

I need to think of a different strategy.

Learning from failure?

Yes.

How about an amazing jumping spider spider's web?

Only when making money is the aim.

These kids, they bring that game and that.

Should you do.

It.

They know what and let you know just how to make that young man.

That is right.

So learn a little more than being in.

You've done it all.

Brought to you by mistakes.

Make one today.

Succeed tomorrow.

This is two.

One, two, three.

Take one and.

Act.

Have you ever messed up?

I mean, have you ever made a really big mistake?

Oh.

Oh, sorry.

Take two.

Action.

Have you ever messed up?

I mean, have you ever made a really big mistake happened.

In a shop?

Oh.

Things that are going on as well.

Everybody's messing up, and it's just really messing up my rhythm.

Okay, everybody, come here.

Come on in.

Let's go.

Let's go.

What is today's episode about.

Learning from failure?

And what are we doing?

Failing.

Exactly.

But the biggest problem is we are learning from our mistakes.

How do we expect to teach the kids about learning from failure?

We can't even learn from our own.

Okay, everybody.

Come on.

Go.

Oh, this is take three.

An action.

Have you ever messed up?

I mean, and now biscuits take you to the streets to ask failure.

Good thing.

Bad thing.

Can you learn from it?

We'll find out.

Do you think failure can be a good thing?

Tiny as we can help.

You can learn from the consequences.

And then you cannot do it again.

And then teach your siblings how to do it right?

Yeah.

Failure can be a good thing.

Guess sometimes like if you fail a test, going to get like a32 and retest or something.

Have you ever learned from someone else's failure?

I learned a lot from my own failures.

The only way to learn is to fail.

The only fail when you quit.

So keep pushing forward.

Have you ever made a mistake?

Yes.

Make some mistakes.

You can't know what you're doing right away.

So you have to actually make those mistakes.

Mistakes are the best teachers out there.

Success for failure.

Success.

If you fail, you learn from your mistakes.

Basically.

Hi, my name is Jeff Bezos.

I'm the founder and CEO of Amazon.com.

When I started Amazon.com, I wasn't afraid that we would fail.

Let me start that one over.

When I started Amazon.com, what I really was afraid of was not trying.

Oh, my goodness.

You can't build anything worth building, in my opinion, without making mistakes.

Mistakes.

And we've certainly.

Made many.

Mistakes.

You know, we've invested in other Internet companies that haven't worked out struggles.

We've made mistakes, mispricing an item, sell the item for $0 or something, even though it's supposed to be $100.

And then we have to write those customers back and say, actually, you know, it wasn't really $0.

We've made mistakes.

We had to, you know, scramble to catch up.

We've worked really hard to learn from our mistakes, correct them and move on to new, fresh mistakes.

If I try and fail, I'm not going to regret that.

But if I never even try, that will haunt me.

All my life.

Okay, you're trying.

Well, no, I don't want to turn.

What, are you scared?

Come on.

No, Kaitlyn, I just don't want to turn.

Okay?

What's going on?

You know, it's just like everybody's looking, and I'm probably going to shoot and then miss it, and then I'll feel like a total idiot and I just don't want to shoot.

Okay.

I bet the first time you tried to tie your shoes, you failed, but I'm pretty sure you know how to tie your shoes now.

Kaitlyn That's totally different.

Hmm.

Failure paves the path to success.

Oh, yeah.

Who's in that?

I just did.

Okay, if I do this, we get off my back.

Absolutely.

Let's go.

Well, anything mistakes.

Okay.

So that's my bad.

So when it comes to learning from your mistake, when learning from your mistakes.

Practice makes perfect.

Well, you are in for a treat tonight.

We have for you an international award winning magician.

He's won first place in competitions in Canada.

He was the 2008 Magician of the Year for the Northwest Ring of Smoke.

So put your hands together and welcome to the stage.

Adam Drouet.

Thank you.

I've been practicing magic about five or six years now.

I first got interested in magic when I think I was about the second grade.

For Christmas, I got a book on magic tricks and I began to practice them.

And I eventually joined a magicians club.

He go and say, Are they?

Do you make money off of my shows?

Also, lately, I've been doing a lot of charity work to become a good magician.

You need lots of experience performing for real people.

Thank you.

Before that, you need to have lost lots of practice.

Well, I've made lots of mistakes in the past, so the things I will use to overcome those mistakes is just having another way out.

Oh, that happens.

One of the mistakes that I kept on making when I first got into this ball manipulation was that the balls kept on slipping from in between my fingers and falling onto the ground.

The problem was I kept on having to reach down and pick up the ball and it caused sort of an awkward moment for the audience.

So by fixing this problem, I decided to invest in some of these silicone balls which bounce.

So in case I drop a ball, I get right back in the game and I can continue on with my routine.

One challenge I've had to overcome in my life is that I've diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, which basically, in a nutshell is an inability to connect with other people.

It's actually a smaller form, simpler version of autism reached into the bag for a thunderous round of applause.

Magic is definitely helped me with Asperger's syndrome because the magic allows me to approach people and get to talk to them and get to know them and have them get to know me a little bit.

So it's sort of like a doorway trying to get into talking to somebody.

But I do make mistakes.

I have to be persistent and I guess it goes same for the Asperger's too.

If I know I'm having problems with something in life, whether it be connecting with others, trying to make new friends, what to say, what not to say.

I just got to keep trying.

And eventually those people skills will keep on getting better and I'll be able to connect with them better and make more friends and just become easier.

We all make mistakes and those definitely help us learn what not to do next time.

And it's just a natural part of life making mistakes.

Oh.

Okay.

How about this, Bridget?

Yes.

I've learned from the.

Many mistakes I made during my Wilderness Survival show.

I've wanted to be with agents of one of their world managers.

Most points.

That's a piece of the net, not the gross.

Yes, I've learned from my mistakes.

Look, money goes my success.

But 1.1.

My baseball card trading business isn't making any money.

I'm a failure.

Yes, kid.

You are.

No, you are.

You can learn from your mistakes.

I can.

Doubtful.

Yes, of course you can.

Or you can just give up, throw in the towel, chuck up the sponge.

Listen, it sounds to me like you didn't get started early enough, had too much stock, and overpaid for your Manny Ramirez cards.

Oh, okay.

So if I just make some adjustments, then I can learn from my mistakes and make more money next year.

Or you can give up and live in your parents basement for the rest of your life.

Ignore him.

I am one sided, Peter.

Hi.

My name is Carla Diemer and I own a pizza place and I'm a busy kid.

This kid has to learn and grow from the mistakes I've made in the past in order to become successful.

That is what I saw an opportunity to start my own restaurant when the restaurant that was there previously, it closed down.

I talked to my dad about it and he thought that it was a pretty good idea, got a loan and just basically borrowed all the equipment and rented the building.

I gave my own name and reopened it.

I didn't really expect it to be glamorous.

I knew it was going to be easy.

I work between 65 and 70 hours a week.

I really don't have much of a social life anymore.

Keeping up with bills is probably one of the hardest things I have to deal with.

Having to manage employees is pretty tough.

Paying taxes, keeping up with all the bills, paying rent.

It can be fun when there's work to do.

When we have business, I get to decorate the place how I want.

I get to play whatever music I want.

So I deal with myself quite a bit.

Keep me on track.

Finding the right people to hire is really important.

You have to be able to trust your employees.

It's pretty hard to bring people in who are your friends, who only see you as a friend instead of your boss.

It's hard to get them to take you seriously, especially when I opened.

Everybody who worked there was my friend.

One of my friends, Chris.

He's a manager.

He's habitually late.

I do have been to this problem.

Always have.

Probably always will.

She complains, but she gets over it.

I don't think I've ever yelled at anybody seriously.

Like I may pretend to yell at them if it's funny, but I try to steer clear of the whole yelling.

Part of management as far as firing people is concerned.

You start to know what to look for in a good employee.

My performance has not been up to par.

Start to figure out which ones are going to cause problems and.

Can be trouble sometimes.

I'm a slacker and a ne'er do well.

I don't deserve to call myself a pizza maker.

I'm going to have to let myself go.

Going down, which is definitely all a learning experience.

Sort of one thing that you have to understand is that not everything is going to be perfect.

Do you kind of have to relax a little bit and kind of go with the flow for these kids?

If you like having a life and being 19, this is not a good idea.

The future of this kid has to learn from his or her mistakes, to learn what to do better or differently in the future.

The pizza.

Dear Diary.

Today is the first day of my very first flight lesson.

I'm going to be in the pilot seat.

So what does this do?

What does that mean exactly?

What if I flip this lever?

What if I push the injection or I shouldn't push.

That one too hard?

We're all gonna die.

Dear diary.

Boy, did I learn from my mistakes today.

I can't wait to learn some more tomorrow in business.

Nobody bats a thousand.

Everybody makes mistakes.

And let me tell you, I've made plenty in the course of my career.

One of the biggest mistakes I've made is to hire a friend or relative.

To the friend in Reno.

Would I be mistaken if I shredded those T.P.S.

reports?

Would I?

Yes, you would be mistaken.

The key is Brian.

You can learn from your mistakes.

Now get me a donut.

You lose, he lose, you lose again.

I hate failure.

Well, you know, it's often said that failure breeds success.

Well, that statement is very true when it comes to business.

Especially when you're starting your first business.

You learn from the mistakes you make with your customers, your money, and the people you work with and hire.

You could say that starting your own business is a series of mistakes.

The important thing to remember is to stick to your long term goals.

That way, you won't get frustrated by your short term failures.

And success is just that more satisfying.

Ha, you lose.

I love success.

I'm pagan.

You're on.

And I.

Married sex.

I'm 18 and I own.

You're on deck.

I came up with the idea when my brother had his bar mitzvah, they had a casino theme and we wanted make playing cards for it so it would be special.

We were looking for decks of cards online and they were just expensive and you had to get a lot of decks.

So my parents, who are printers, printed up the cards and we learned a few things about the process.

These are the cards Mom put it last night.

Look great.

I figure out how I can market it.

Then once I did the business plan, I had already gone so far.

I figured I might as well make it into a real business.

Welcome to my office.

Let me show you how I make my cards.

Import the file.

And next, we go to the printing process.

This is the print shop where I make my cards.

That's my dad.

And you're on deck.

I've made a lot of mistakes, but I always try to learn from my mistakes.

You forget your last line here.

And one of the mistakes I made in the first week when I became really big was sending an e-mail to a potential customer that said that quality wasn't that big of a concern for her.

I made that assumption.

This is the actual email that the woman sent to me.

I have to tell you, you.

Should never write to a potential customer.

The quality is not an issue.

Quality is always an issue when a customer is caring about their orders.

She didn't like that.

I made that assumption for her.

So the situation I had was where a customer didn't pay for their decks of cards.

I'd already printed them, boxed them, and I had them ready to ship.

And now I'm stuck with a lot of extra decks.

Yeah, that was definitely a mistake.

I should have waited for them to pay for it, which is why now I've set it up where they pay me first.

And then once that happens, then they get their orders.

But I learn from that mistake, and I haven't made it again.

And that's a finished deck.

I'm probably going to keep making mistakes throughout year on deck, but it's just a matter of learning from them.

Have your excuse me.

I've got some mistakes to learn from.

All this time.

I basically mean the English.

No, I mean, I might.

The main thing.

It's always this.

Fill your this can get in one day.

It's come to.

Me what.

I might be meaning the next year to make it work.

I guess we have to that say for on to be as they say from failure comes success.

Now I learned from failure well I learned from failure.

Tell you if it doesn't work at first.

Make some changes, maybe try something different.

But don't give up.

I mean, I've been through a lot of stuff and I had a lot of struggles, but everybody does.

You know, when you come to understand that your life's a lot more easier for you.

Homeboy Industries did save my life.

I was 13 years old when I started using crystal meth.

When I started using drugs, I started being late to school.

I started skipping fifth and sixth period, and it led me to running away from home.

Drugs kind of messed up my mind.

I wasn't thinking about the consequences.

I wasn't thinking about anything.

I knew my life was out of control and I knew it was because of the drugs, but I just couldn't stop.

I stole from Kmart and I got arrested for that.

It was a thing whether you're going to do the time, are you going to change your life?

At first I wasn't there to get clean, but I started seeing people that were just like me changing their life.

They had cars, they had the family's back.

They had all this stuff that I wanted.

I got clean.

I started facing reality.

I stopped feeling sorry for myself.

If I didn't get a job here at Homeboy Industries, I would probably be sitting in prison.

Homeboy Industries has been around for 20 years now.

The goal is basically to help young people who have been in gangs, have been in addiction and have just, you know, had troubled lives, helped them to become productive citizens.

They went places trying to get jobs.

And I was just so tired of being rejected because of my.

We have all kinds of support here.

We have an attorney, in-house mental health counselors, a charter school and a GED prep program.

They can get a job here, but this is a training program.

And what we're doing is training them to be capable of working elsewhere.

That's going to be we're going to be busy.

That's what Homeboy is all about.

Is just being there for each other and helping somebody when they fall down.

And now that I've turned my life around and I got a job, I go to middle schools, high schools, and I talk to kids.

If I put my mind is something I know now that I can do it.

If you have a desire and it's big enough, then yeah, you can change your life.

I don't consider my past mistakes, failures.

I just think of them as a learning experience.

Hey, biscuits?

Yeah.

Biscuits.

Hey, biscuits.

Don't be afraid to beat your butt.

Well, welcome back.

And we are joined by Cheryl here, who says she wants to start a business, but she says she's afraid to try.

I know my idea is great.

I'm just worried it won't be successful.

You don't even know if the business will succeed until you try it.

And even if it don't work, the attempt is not a failure.

If you learn something, you can use the next time.

But Dr. Bill, if my business fails, aren't I failure?

That is a heap in Hong Kong.

But time traveling Toll Brothers.

This time our intrepid explorer who set a course for 1918 to see Thomas.

Edison's famous invention factory.

Matt, did you fix the time?

Gates?

I thought you did.

Why do you boys all right?

We're fine.

I told you to check the time gauge.

You're a total failure.

You are.

Don't go picking on him.

Just make one mistake.

Why?

For all my success, I've had plenty of failures.

Why?

I had over 10,000 fatties before I got the light bulb right.

But the time gauge is a sophisticated piece of 21st century engineering.

We'll never be able to fix it.

Come on.

Remember everything I do.

You just make your one step closer to success.

Failure.

Failure, failure, failure.

What you doing?

Well, my friend opened an espresso cart, and it's not working out for him.

Oh, harsh.

Yeah, he's pretty bum.

So I'm trying to send him some good fortune.

Well, tell him how Thomas Edison failed almost 10,000 times before creating the electric light bulb.

And about that young artist who was told by every newspaper that he had no talent.

And then he saw the mouse in the studio and had that one big idea.

Guy's name?

Walt Disney.

Wow.

I was thinking we could go to the basketball court or gym and work out some frustrations.

Another good idea.

If he gets it out of his system, it'll be easier to think through what happened.

Or maybe he could talk to a mentor.

Somebody he looks up to from a business standpoint, somebody who can help him see what went wrong and what to do from here.

Okay.

So I can tell him that an unsuccessful attempt is only a failure if it makes you quit.

Did you just make that up?

No.

Fortune cookie.

Well, I'm.

Good, thanks.

Of course you will learn from failure.

Yeah.

I'm Jessica.

And I'm Marissa.

And I'm in.

And we run big enterprises.

Oh, yay.

Me is a really good one.

Big Enterprises is a student run business.

We own five acres of land which we harvest, grow clams and oysters off of every year.

Thousands of these horses are sold all over the world from our very own beaches.

This is our beach where the finest oysters are grown.

So there are two ways that we sell our oysters.

The first one is through fairs and festivals where we sell cooked dishes.

And the second one is through Taylor Shellfish.

And we broker oysters for them and they help get them all over the world.

We need to get help from our mentors when we start new business because they help us along the way and help us prevent from making mistakes that can hurt the business in huge ways.

We have not one, but several mentors to help us.

One of the initial problems for Bill Clinton or prizes for our marketing was the branding was not sticking to the oysters, which then caused us to lose money because one wanted to buy our oysters.

We went to an expert by the name of spin chic.

Spin is well known for her oysters.

She actually owns her own business where she sells oysters and other types of seafood.

And laid the oyster all look naked to want to eat naked oysters anyway.

Oh, good.

Really?

Let's just say.

To solve our problem, we just have.

To boil those.

Yeah.

So I think that would help a lot.

You try it, you probably like it.

Since blanching tip that she gave us yesterday.

Actually works amazing.

We're not having any type of problem at all.

Like.

Oh, the oysters are just right.

Just the way I like oysters.

There are a lot of challenges we had to get over, but one of the major ones was the kids didn't know how to make change.

So on one event, we gave away over $600 in change.

And $600 is definitely a lot of money for a small business to lose.

When you have an event like this.

This is where your short change artists, your grifters, people who will come in and take advantage of the kids.

So then we realized that the people still really had to know how to make change and Joy was the one that told me how to do it.

Right now I'm managing the cash register and I'm not nervous about it because I know how to make change.

And I learned the right way yesterday that one of the.

Challenges we face, that big question, was finding out whether the oyster shells had an oyster or if they were full of sense.

One has sand and that one's an oyster.

He's feel the.

Difference.

It's really important to get a good name from the business because if people are finding out that they're getting duds with sand, then more customers aren't going to want to come back and buy the oysters.

We want to make sure when we sell a dozen oysters, there's a dozen oysters in the back.

Joe helped us solve the problem by teaching us that the sand oysters weighed more than the ones with the actual oyster in them.

So we didn't have that much of a problem anyway.

I think the kids sometimes get nervous to ask people for help, but when adults really know what they're doing, they're really excited to help out the kids.

They ask and they're excited to share what they know.

Big Cool is a project that has become a very successful business.

Now it's time for another viewer.

It's a minute video.

And I'm M.C.

Wow.

And I'm here to say I'm learning from failure every day.

Like the time I put my hands in the toaster and my fingers got on roasted or the time I had a roofing business I learned never go on the roof and slippers.

Some people ask why, but I'm not afraid because I got to try.

Like the time I had a dog grooming business and I put a lot of hard work in it, and then things went crazy and all this stuff started failing and I had to go away for a while.

And now I'm going back with to style with my mentor, Mr. Solow Boo.

We talk on the phone and he tells me what to do.

Hey, little homies, don't be fooled.

Learning from failure is really cool.

Which one learns from your failures?

And then isn't your failure all day long?

Baby isn't a failure.

Now it's time for another biscuit quiz You can turn defeat into victory if you hey smash things with a bad B Learn from experience seize lock yourself in your bedroom if you answer B Congratulations.

Your best kid is the answer day or C, but you got some is.

Oh much better.

Yeah.

See, I realized I wasn't taking into account the weight of the ball.

Good.

Also, the distance between myself and the hope are even better.

And now I've combined two together to maximize my chances of success.

It looks like you're learning from failure.

Your turn.

Okay, here we go.

I also figured out a great escape route.

And it's that way.

Okay.

Behold my new invention, the wheel.

Whoa!

Watch out for failure.

Back to the drawing board.

Drawn out next.

Try the wheel.

I have learned from my mistakes.

Ouch!

Ouch!

Ouch!

Failure again.

This time I have it right.

Wheel must be around.

Watch out.

Ouch.

Ouch.

George, remember, best kids learn from failure.

Ouch, ouch, ouch.

All right, so now you've heard some of our stories, and we want to hear some of yours.

Maybe you or a friend have started your own business or thought of some ideas to help the community.

Now we want to hear about those.

So go to CNN.com and share the good news.

Who knows?

Maybe you'll end up right here on the show.

Well, not exactly right here, but.

Yeah.

On the show.

Come on.

Right here.

No, not really.

Right here.

No, not there.

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A complete list of individual credit union funders is available at WXXI Dawn.

Every day, America's credit unions help members with their financial needs and with programs like Invest in America.

It's only fitting that credit unions support big kids because financial education is what we do.

Learn more at Love.

My Credit Union Board.