{"id":10699,"date":"2017-03-22T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T18:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=10699"},"modified":"2017-03-22T13:37:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T18:37:02","slug":"book-review-mistakes-that-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=10699","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Mistakes that Worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mistakes-That-Worked-Familiar-Inventions\/dp\/0385320434\/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1490207665&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr0&amp;keywords=mistakes+that+worked+out\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10700\" alt=\"51TE3pP1RZL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/51TE3pP1RZL._SX258_BO1204203200_.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/51TE3pP1RZL._SX258_BO1204203200_.jpg 260w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/51TE3pP1RZL._SX258_BO1204203200_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I expected when I picked up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mistakes-That-Worked-Familiar-Inventions\/dp\/0385320434\/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1490207665&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr0&amp;keywords=mistakes+that+worked+out\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mistakes that Worked<\/em><\/a>, but it was interesting to read about 40 things that started as mistakes and ended up being inventions that we enjoy today&#8230;i.e. Post-It Notes, Coca-Cola, etc. \u00a0I was families with some of the stories and picked up some interesting new trivia along the way. \u00a0This book is a great resource for someone that may need some encouragement or just overall interesting information! \u00a0There were several great quotes throughout that I have posted below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\"?--><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cName the greatest of all the inventors. \u00a0Accident.\u201d Mark Twain (Notebook)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIntelligence is not to make no mistakes. \u00a0But quickly to see how to make them good.\u201d Bertolt Brecht, 1930<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhere observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.\u201d Louis Pasteur, 1854 p. 26<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFailure is the battle scar of someone who tried.\u201d p. 35<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNo man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.\u201d William E. Gladstone, p. 41<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWho never walks save where he sees Men\u2019s tracks, makes no discoveries.\u201d J.G. Holland, p. 56<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOnly he who does nothing makes a mistake.\u201d French Proverb p. 66<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;m not sure what I expected when I picked up Mistakes that Worked, but it was interesting to read about 40 things that started as mistakes and ended up being inventions that we enjoy today&#8230;i.e. Post-It Notes, Coca-Cola, etc. \u00a0I was families with some of the stories and picked up some interesting new trivia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,35,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-creative","category-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}