TOP 7 FAILS OF HISTORY
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- The other day I said I would speak at an event here in Missoula. I slept in, missed my speaking slot, and felt like a totally failure. So I read about some of the worst fails of all time to make myself feel better. I may have let some people down, but at least my fail didn't lead to the deaths of millions of people.
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Before I watch I just want to say that 'invading Russia during winter' needs to be on here at least once.
It was! Yay! I don't know if he was talking about Hitler or Napoleon but I don't care!
Actually, Napoleon invaded during the fall. It was still deathly cold though.
I thought he invaded sometime around November?
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It's actually (I think) a line from The Princess Bride, where Vizzini is choosing which wine to drink
you missed the mars rover that crashed because someone used inches rather than cm!
It's about historic fails...this is a more current affair.
enoch lowe
if it has HAPPENED then technically speaking it is historic
enoch lowe
So? History doesn't have to be ancient. 9/11 doesn't hold any historical significance? How about the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine? Obviously, history is being written in the present.
I think it is mentioned in another vlogbrothers video
The manager of that program published a book called (not kidding here), "High Impact Space Program Management!" right before the crash ...
What about in 1788 when the Austrian army attacked itself and lost hundreds of men
Wasn't the deathcount 8000 or so?
+Trickaprilon maybe, I just could not remember the death toll when I was writing the comment
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Especially because they were on campaign against the Ottomans.
Using the imperial system as you send a probe into space.
+Sean Mars Climate Observer reference? :D
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oh hey abstract art guy
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Even greater epic fail: Deny a man the chance to go to art school, he becomes a dictator and the bringer of a world war instead, killing countless lives.
I don't think we can blame the art school for that.
The political climate in Germany was such that, if it hadn't been Hitler, someone else would've stepped into his place. Please note, there is no way to know if this is literally true, since we can't look at a real alternate timeline. But with how much support he got, and so quickly, anyone could've done it. And when it's something anyone could do, someone does.
How about the 12 publishers that turned down Harry Potter?! xD
I was looking for a comment like this
JK rowling has said that every time the book got turned down it went through another editing cycle, and would be a much worse book if not for those publishers.
Which is uncommon. Most books go through more.
Or the studios that said no to star wars
Or A Wrinkle in Time.
Most epic fail in history? Even modern cannons of 1453 couldn't bring down the walls of Constantinople, the finally fell when, drum roll please* A greek merchant left the doors open
the guy who told Elvis Presley that he had no future in music. the company that fired Walt Disney for a "lack of imagination and creativity".
Walt was imaginative. Not so sure about the company now.
In the same vein as the first one you mentioned, the editor who refused JK Rowling's Harry Potter and several years later went on to refuse Robert Galbraith's first manuscript. That is the most epic of epic fails of the history of book edition.
in hindsight, it's one of the biggest epic wins of all time, considering that jk rowling became a massive transphobe.
@@Toblehroneand also that fucking pen name, jesus
epic fail #8-the Archduke Ferdinand's driver took a wrong turn, allowing him to be assassinated leading to WWI
More Archduke Ferdinand faliures: His assassins.
There were seven of them. It was only THE SEVENTH GUY who actually managed to kill him.
#1: Claimed he couldn't see the car and so didn't throw his bomb
#2: Threw his bomb, missed, then jumped into a canal and crunched a cyanide pill... the pill was old, so he vomited it up and the canal water was ankle deep. He was put in prison and later became a history teacher.
#3: Chickened out because he didn't want to kill the Archduke's wife
#4: Also claimed he couldn't see the car
#5: shot at him, but missed
#6: wasn't even there for the assassination
#7: Was eating a sandwich in a nearby cafe when he noticed that the Archduke's car was passing because his wife wanted to visit a hospital with survivors from attacker no. 2, so decided to just go ahead and kill both of them.
That is a lot of fails. Probably one of the worse assassinations ever and it led a world war.
Theodore Peterson And WWI caused WWII; then WWII caused the cold war and practically all the wars going on today. So a sandwich & a wrong turn killed millions of people. (Trying very hard not to laugh about this; must resist!)
If Gavrilo Princip had eaten a sandwich in a different cafe, 79 million lives would've been spared...
Realistically, that might not have happened; the powers of Europe were gonna go to war anyway; they just needed an excuse. Still, it's a possibility.
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A roman emperor declared war on poseidon and sent his armies to the beach yo stab the water
I think you mean Greek, the Roman god of the sea was Neptune, not Poseidon.
Joel Fraser Neptune is just Poseidon's Roman name. Different language same god.
The Librarian From Oz The emperors name was Caligula and he was slightly insane. ^^
The Librarian From Oz Thank you. Thank you so much.
Slightly?
Most epic fail in recorded human history. Shooting Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914.
Or Austria thinking that Germany was allied to them because they wanted a war and Germany being allied to Austria in hope that there would be no more wars.
to be fair the war would probably have started soner or later anyways for some other small reason but yes that was an epic fail
+TheRacoonGhost the bigger fail in war was that Conrad (commander of austro-hungarian army) beg emperor to start the war, to expand their empire and the war ended in anihilation of A-H empire.
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It was good for the US though because getting involved in WW2 (which wouldn't have happened without that event) beefed up our economy.
A really obvious fail in history that everyone is forgetting: the people who built the Titanic thought it was "unsinkable," and because of this decided it would only carry 16 lifeboats although it could have carried 64. It sank on its very first voyage, killing nearly 1,500 people- deaths that would easily have been prevented if they had simply put more lifeboats on board.
The Beatles thing happened to a band called the New Yardbirds, they basically said the band would be as disastrous as a Zeppelin full of lead. Jimmy Page took the term 'Zeppelin made of lead' and re named the band Led Zeppelin.
Vsauce.
See this guy, this guy gets it
Battle of Karánsebes
17 September 1788.
Different parts of the Austrian army was send to scout for the Turkish army and ended up shooting at each other by mistake. Many Austrians where hurt in the heat of battle against other Austrians. The Turks successfully captured the city of Karánsebes.
That Princess Bride Reference! Also another fail is that 7 publishers turned down Harry Potter.
plus yahoo turned down the opportunity to bu google for 5 mil (there net worth now is 32.7 billion)
Slightly less epic fail: at the start of the Second World War, Rotterdam was bombed by accident. They were planning to bomb it, but someone made up their mind because it would be cruel to make so many innocent casualties when the Dutch were gonna surrender soon anyways. Thing is, they had said the sign for "stop don't bomb the city" was to lit up these red light signals, that day it was very cloudy and foggy so the pilots couldn't see shit. They didn't see the "stop don't bomb the city" signs, so they didn't stop and they bombed the city.....
Actually, Rotterdam was bombed accidentally twice: First by the Germans as you described, and second by the US in '43. They wanted to bomb the harbour (which was important to the Germans), but bad weather and poor navigation meant they bombed western Rotterdam, the bit the Germans had (mostly) missed. If you're interested, check out the _forgotten bombardment of Rotterdam_ on wikipedia.
Why did you point out that bit of your hair?
I can't unsee it and pay attention to the video.
The Princess Bride reference made me happy :)
It's possibly my favorite movie ever.
Mine too! It's got a little bit of everything - and so many quotable lines!! :)
I feel dumb, I missed the reference. Love the movie though!
I forgot his name but in history class we where talking about the American civil war and a war general came across the plans of the opposing side and he completely forgot to tell anyone that he HAD THE EXACT PLAN ON HOW THE WHERE GOING TO BE ATTACKED. Any way a lot of people died and they epically failed the battle. BUT HE HAD THE OTHER SIDES WAR SCHEDULE AND DID NOTHING
I think that was General George McClellan. It was the battle of Bull Run or something and he had the General Robert Lee's plans, but didn't really use them. He was overcautious which made him not want to put all his faith into the plans. When Lincoln realized this, he immediately removed him from his position. McClellan later became the candidate of the Democratic party in the election of 1864. (I literally just talked about this today in class)
One fine day in the 1800s or so, there were only two cars on the roads of the entire state of Ohio. They crashed into each other.
Not a calamitous failure, but the odds...
Let's not forget the 12 Publishing Companies that turned down Harry Potter.
What about the Mars project where half the team used Imperial units, and half used Metric.. and upon landing, the conversion mix-up caused billions of dollars to crash full speed into the planet because it thought it was higher than it was.
Wasn't the Trojan horse said to be made as an offering? Like the Greeks were more like: "hey we made this horse as an offering to Poseidon so we'll get home save please don't be rude and take it." And so the Trojans took it?
Anna Mangnus yep!
+Anna Mangnus there are a few different versions since it's a story/myth and not confirmed historical fact
The Trojan war is mythology, not history. I'm not sure why Hank talks about it as if we know it happened, and know how and why it happened
+Peter Lake Sorry to bring up an old comment but the Trojan war has happened.
Well, Troy was a real city and there were probably wars fought there, but the only evidence of the famed Trojan war comes only from poets.
In 1788 Austria accidentally attacked its own army, resulting in the death of 10,000 of its own soldiers.
Cracked. Right? RIGHT?
Excuse me? I don't think I understand what you mean.
yessssss
Japan did that in World War ll as well.
Guaranteed success. I like it.
Another fail: the 8 yard throw by the Seahawks in the Super Bowl
Too soon, mate.
I think we're afraid of failure because of the possibility of being ridiculed. Also, a simple mistake could possibly grow into epic proportions.
Hinata Hajime I believe it is about our social identity, soc idens form the basis of equalibrium in a social group, and the mind does not like large changes. Your dream of a rock band could make your classical fans view you as a well versed musician, not the geek who they ask for test cheat sheets.
YESSSS! THE REFERENCE! AHHHHH! I CANNOT TAKE IT! IT'S... IT'S... inconceivable.
+Anna Peterson (Annie) (That word was my senior yearbook quote, btw)
Best comment ever
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
We aren't really afraid of failure, just of other people and their reactions to what we deem to be failure. We don't want to see other people disappointed in us. I, for one, am a huge perfectionist. When I got an 89% on my math test, I was practically in tears. But that was only because I generally get higher scores than a lot of people in my class, and when they all found out they beat me (by a lot), it was not a pretty scene. That was what I was afraid of. Because when my friends said "Oh, whatever, I still think you're really smart," I felt better. Why? Because I had been reaffirmed. So no matter how often people tell you that you shouldn't care what others think of you, we do. Maybe we shouldn't, but we do, and that's what causes this fear of failure.
Add tonight to that list. No matter what side you are on. Tonight was an American failure.
More like this month.
i am afraid of failure because i feel like it's a reflection on me as a person - like, if i fail, even once, it reflects negatively on my character. my biggest failure has been letting my diseases take over my life and not enjoying each moment, each small beautiful thing, each laugh and smile - it's something i'm working on. thanks for the videos (they brighten my days so much) and for just being awesome.
Hank, there is lip balm on your shelf. My eyes just drifted to it. This confuses me because I have watched this video a number of times and I just noticed it. This comment doesn't make much sense. My english teacher likes this video. I need to stop typing now...
I’m pretty sure it’s the highly disturbing corn dog flavored lip balm
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you have lived so carefully that you may as well have not lived at all, in which case you fail by default."
~J.K. Rowling
The foundation of all my fears is simply being afraid of being afraid of being afraid. It can inhibit you from doing the things you want to do by knocking back your self esteem to do so. And THAT! can be a real pain in the ass to get over sometimes.
Sooo... you're scared to be scared of being scared?
I love these old videos. the lighting completely changes in three consecutive shots, and it makes me smile.
Oh! General Iroh at Ba Sing Se!
TLOK fan here too! :D
TLOK fan here too!
David De Guzman Avatar, not Korra.
I love Avatar too😃😃😃😃😃😃
Cinestar Productions C'mon, cuh! Don't be hating on the dude! He took it later in his life!
ANOTHER EPIC FAIL. When Archduke Franz Ferdinand visited Sarajevo, there's this guy who threw a bomb into his car but the Archduke caught the bomb and threw it away... Only for it to hit the car on the back.
***** Oh, you mean Gavrillo Principe? LOL! It's like he was thinking, "Eh, it's not worth it, just gonna go and have a sandwich," *Duke drove by* "Ah yeah I have to do it anyway lol"
One to add to the list would be Columbus discovering America, albeit a happy mistake in a well educated time a highly trusted ships captain missed his course by over 2000 miles and still believed he had landed in India.
Not so happy for the natives...
This is true
Columbus didn't even discover America.
Concerning the Beatles, that record label also said "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
I did not get that from Vsauce so don't say it.
Quite a few years ago, my grandfather lived in an area where, nearby, a couple of men were mixing chemicals in their garages. They said they were trying to start a company, and offered him a chance to invest in it. He declined, and today that company is known as Dow Chemical Company.
What about the time Australia went to war with emus and lost
that and the releasing of the cane toad to eat a beetle it didnt really like
Samantha Fish bird brains.
if you ever feel like an idiot, remember that there are people that actually think the world is 2014 years old.
Ian Shockley While I'm certainly not one of the people you refer to, I can understand why _some_ people could be convinced of it.
a) their holy book, which is sometimes said to be inerrant or 'god breathed' gives lineages which, when combined with the known date of the death of king Nebuchadnezzer II, gives humanity an age of ~6000 years.
b) people they trust (e.g. their clergy) tell them it as fact.
c) if God's holy book was wrong on something, surely God would fix it.
d) they probably don't have much understanding of the dating methods which indicate the earth's age
e) who does a person trust: a clergyman they know, respect and believe talks directly to the creator of the earth via prayer; or something they've heard on TV?
My conclusion (which you're welcome to disagree with) is that thinking the world is ~6000 years old is unfortunate, but not necessarily stupid. Thinking that the world is only 2014 years old is hopefully just a lack of education (knowing about AD/BC and/or BCE/CE). Okay, there's often stupidity as well...
I'm not afraid of failure. I'm afraid of running out of time to keep failing.
I can't tell you how much I needed this today. I haven't failed yet, but it's probably gonna happen sometime over the next 10 weeks as I take on a huge project at work for the first time. Thankfully, they are supportive and encouraging so literally nothing awful is going to happen if I fail, but still terrified.
The charge of the light brigade
Now I have Iron Maiden's "The Trooper" stuck in my head.
Invading russia in winter
+Shadic 108 I think invading Russia is never a good idea, regardless of the weather conditions
Unless you are wait for it, the Mongols
+Sam Rodgers I KNEW I WAS GOING TO FIND THIS HERE.
+Nate “Shad” A. To be fair it can work out you just have to bring winter supplies
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I just noticed the essential bordertown book on your bookcase and the amount of happy it made me is way to much right here.
The driver who made a wrong turn with Archduke Franz Ferdinand in his car, conveniently passing Gavrilo Princip who shot him, eventually leading to World War 1 was begin to be on that list
i agree to you
A good list but this is my top 10:
10: 26/12/14 A large tsunami killed 230.000 people of whom 62.000 could have been warned. A complet sensorsystem cost about 30 million dollars. A 10 year old english girl knew more than the Thai government...
9/ April 1991 Gerald Ratner publicly insulted his own product. His stocks dropped 1 billion dollar and he lost everything.
8/ 25/4/1986 The Tsjernobyl meltdown was caused by a complete mismanaged testprocedure.
7/ 1929-1940 The maginotlline, millions were wasted by building the wrong fortifications in the wrong place.
6/feb 1915 - nov 1915 Gallipoli, pointless attacks on an impregnable peninsula. At least 400.000 death on both side
5/ jun 1812 - jul 1812 Napoleons attack on Russia. The destruction of the French Army (500.000 men lost).
4/ nov 1519 Moctezuma, emperor of the aztecs took a Spanish sonquistador for a returning god. He gave away his entire civilization.
3/ 01/07/1916 - 09/11/1916 The Battle of the Somme. About 1000.000 soldiers died in kamikaze attacks that lasted for months and gained nothing.
2/ 1936-1938 Stalin destroyed the elite of his own army and millions of Russians in what is known today as the great purge.
1/ 1958-1960 The great leap forward killed 20-40 million people. The only thing bigger than the catastrophes happening in front of everyone was the unwillingness to admid something was wrong (it lasted for 3 years).
Awesome top 10
Okay, maybe my 65 for putting humor in a formal lab assignment is not something I should chew off my nose over.
This actually makes me feel a lot better about some of my epic fails... even though I'm sitting here in a foot cast, beneath which I've injured myself so seriously that I can no longer return to my previous place of residence: a halfway house. Thanks Hank!
The reason we are afraid of failure might be that we fear being caught, noticed, or laughed at in our failure. It also might have to do with humans desire to succeed, making it so vital.
The Trojan horse was thought by the Trojan's to be a gift to Poseidon, from the Greeks, for safe passage home and as Poseidon was a patron of Troy they couldn't destroy it, least they incur Poseidon's wrath, and had to move it to his temple... inside the city.
Albert Einstein had a teacher who said he was idiotic (haven't memorized the speech, but you get it) and look at him now- well... Look at him then! He was smart!
this is one of the most uplifting things I've ever heard thank you
Very inspirational!! Thank you for your video.
"especially when they just developed a bomb that can destroy whole cities"
If he is referring to the atomic bomb his timeline is off. Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in December '41. The atomic bomb was developed in mid-early '45. He's off by almost four years.
Also the trojan horse was likely just a literary device developed as part of the mythology surrounding the trojan war.
IT IS NOT A 'LITERARY DEVICE!' It is the most important part of the Trojan War! Without it, who knows how long the war would have went on!! PLUS it is not mythology, to the Greek culture it is history as much as our countries being founded! Just because you don't believe it doesn't mean that you have to bring everyone else down too.
ReleaseTheNinja Alright. I'm trying to bring everyone down. But, the trojan horse was almost certainly developed as a part of the mythology and to add to the story. The greek phrasing used initially to refer to the trojan horse correspond with a battering ram and the earliest references usually relate it more to a way the soldiers overcame the defenses of troy and found a way through their walls.
indigojack99 Also, the Japanese bombed the United States because of our crippling economic sanctions imposed for no reason.
David Irwin Uh, there kinda was a reason. It was because Japan allied itself with Germany, and the U.S. was against Germany. Also, Imperial Japan was terrible. Like, beyond terrible. Like, so far beyond terrible that it's comparable to the holocaust terrible.
David Irwin I would say that the Rape of Nanking in '37 is more than enough justification. And the comment above this one also makes a good point about Japan allying with Nazi Germany.
I fear that i'll never find happiness and that high school really will the best time of my life
Why?
Advice: Stop worrying about it. High school is secretly terrible.
Dez Turek
Not so secret. For me, high school was **awful**
The man at Decca Records who turned down the Beatles was Dick Rowe, who actually had a double failure, as he also stated that "groups with guitars were on the way out".
Roman Emperor Claudius' wife (and his niece, and mother of Claudius' step-son, Nero) convinced Claudius to make Nero his successor. Afterwards, Claudius' wife assassinated him, and Nero became emperor. Later, Nero executed his mother. Nero also burnt down the city of Rome while playing 'The Fall of Troy' on his lyre on a hill nearby, so his whole reign was pretty much a fail...
The Princess Bride reference! (:
are you saying my failures fail to be significant? Damn... meta-fail.
I'm afraid of failure because I'm afraid of how other people will think of me. They might think I'm a clumsy, forgetful little weakling and I also see myself that way. I'm totally fine with myself thinking of myself that way, but I don't want others thinking of me negatively. That's my job.
Do yourself a favor and watch this with closed captions on because the little side commentary that is given is what gives me LIFE 😂
What about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand-the driver of the car with franz in it took a wrong turn and had to turn back with an assassin standing there and he killed him, doing this later caused world war 1. Have a nice day.
Probably would have started anyway mate :)
While i love your series and the point of this video, I must point out the blatant display of ignorance by classifying military and political mistakes as failures of individuals or even "fail" in general. There is a reason behind invading Russia, and bombing Pearl Harbor. The decision itself is not a fail, it is the decisions following the invasion, and incompetence of the system that produced the history as we know today. One good question to ask when encountering fails in history is WHY that person/group made that seemingly stupid decision? Put yourself in their shoes.
Throughout these videos, I'm always discovering things I have in common with the vlogbrothers, and now quoting The Princess Bride is one of them. My life is complete.
One of my favorite videos...
Still not sure why we fear failure so much, but it's terrifying none the less.
What about all those record labels that turned down Linkin Park, or Hybrid Theory as they were called back then.
Not as good or as successful as the Beatles. Not by a long shot.
Jim Fleming Not as successful maybe, but way better than the Beatles.
Jakromha Did... did just you like BOTH of your comments?
Kyler Lumpkin You can actually see who liked my comment. See for yourself I'd say.
Jakromha touche, (plus that little thing that goes over the e) sorry, I'm kind of an impulsive speaker and I'm pretty sure I wasn't on my ADD pill the day I said that. No use deleting my comment though, I still said it whether or not I should've.
dont think the beatles one is that good, plenty of great people were told that they were not good enought at what would eventually make them famous, Micheal jordans high school coach didnt pick him when surely the kindergarden teacher could have seen those skills.
What makes it funny is that they said "We don't like your sound and guitar music is on its way out." Ah the stupidity of humanity.
I think you miss the point of the Beatles one. It wasn't a Beatle fail, but a Decca Studio Executive fail.
***** Relinds me of what happens with JK Rowling when she tried to publish Harry Potter
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by that logic every idol, x factor, pop star should be on the list, look at the amount people who thought they were good.
Exactly
thank you for that princess bride reference- it is very appreciated
A lot of things, actually, but, momentarily, the big issue is: stagnation. Career-wise especially, but also intellectually, socially, financially. I fear I won't be able to learn anything new, that I am not smart enough, not courageous enough to expand my horizon, to do something that will make me happy or that such a thing does not even exist. I know that "okay" will never satisfy me, but I can't seem to get to awesome. And I am very impatient and over-analytic, which complicates things :)
2:07 "Oddly Enough... Always Men."
It's one thing to be a self-loathing white man, Hank, but another thing to try and hide it from us while half-admitting it by flashing it on the screen too fast for most people to see. Gender equality is all and good, but don't go around disparaging men. It's no better than disparaging women.
I don't think that women were participating in or allowed to participate in a lot of the mention things so that's why it was men.
I don't know why, but, Sir! You just made my day better :)
curse you Hank, it's 2 a.m. and i cant stop watching!
" hey, hey guys just a thought, how about we don't invade one of the coldest nations in the world in the middle of winter without warm clothes? No? Ok."
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure..."
Both of you are so inspiring! Thank you for your job! I watch VlogBrothers for inspitation and CrashCourse for information (also, it is funny in a good way sometimes). BTW, where do you get your energy from?
Although our nations' relations are strained at the moment, it feels so great that good things are accessible globally, regardless of nationality, social and political status!
So the thing with the Trojan horse- as a Latin student, I felt I needed to contribute this. So the Trojan horse is believed by many historians to be either a metaphor, or completely made up. The horse is the symbol of Neptune/ Poseidon, so it is believed that there may have been an earthquake that knocked down Troy's walls, allowing the Greeks to attack. As Neptune is the earth shaker, for story purposes, it may have been made into an actual wooden horse. Another theory is that the battering rams of the time often resembled horses, so the Greeks may have used a battering ram to break down the walls of Troy, then Virgil dramatized it into the story we know today. Anyways, just a fun tidbit for anyone looking through old vlogbrothers videos
I laughed so hard at your Vizzini reference. I even heard Wallace Shawn say it!
I'm so afraid of failure because I trained myself to be that way. As the oldest child I hold myself to an impossible standard to be the perfect example for my siblings and the child my parents want and it's led to many a breakdown and some pretty strange quirks.
This was the first vlogbrothers video I ever watched. I made it back on my second 'journey' :) DFTBA.
This is surprisingly inspiring.
I'm in school to be a ship captain. Sometimes I think how easy it is to screw up, destroy an ecosystem, lose hundreds of millions of dollars of ship and cargo, kill the crew, oh yeah and if I do survive out of all of this, go to jail for the rest of my life. So if that's not a good incentive to study then I don't know what is... speaking of which, I should go back to studying...
After it was pointed out, I couldn't stop watching the hair bob around hahaha.
Getting involved in a land war in Asia! That is also a Princess Bride reference and I love it ^^
We, as humans, strive for perfection. We also want to fit into certain categories. We pick these categories based on what we think is important. When we fail it means we are not perfect. It also usually makes us feel that we don't fit into that category anymore.
Thanks Hank @vlogbrothers.
+vlogbrothers
Thomas Midgely Jr. - He introduced tetraethyl lead as an anti knock agent in cars and chlorofluorocarbons as refrigerants, both of which are extremely damaging to the environment and/or humans
The Princess Bride quote makes this video even better.
that princess bride reference made me wayyy too happy :)
A grand parent of one of my friends turned down a deal to buy Dr. Pepper
around 80 years ago when Dr Pepper was failing during the great depression
I'm not afraid of small failures, but I have made one particular huge failure and my friends still tease me about it to this day.
HANK GREEN THAT PRINCESS BRIDE QUOTE WAS THE BEST THING OF LIFE!!!!
The Princess Bride reference (: That is one rare case where the movie is just as good as the book.
Much smaller mistake, but before Steven Spielberg's ET came out, they asked if ET's favorite candy could be M&Ms, but the M&M company turned it down, thus Reese's Pieces was the one. Big mistake.
I read somewhere a long time ago that our view of stupidity is either A: learning from someone else's mistakes or B: someone learning a life lesson we've already learned ourselves. Either way, no one wants to be the subject of those situations.
To be fair to the Trojans, they didn't exactly have much history to go on. The conversation probably went something like this:
"What the **** is this?"
"It's a giant wooden horse, sir."
"I know what it is! Where did it come from?"
"Well, the Greeks are all gone, so I guess they made this as an offering to Poseidon for a safe journey home?"
"Hmm..well, we are running low on fire wood. Whatever, let's bring this thing back to the city while we round up some people to take it apart."
Also, research on atomic weapons didn't even begin in America until a year after Japan attacked. But just to reinforce the epicness of the fail, Japan went through with the attack despite their CHIEF ADMIRAL telling them it was a bad idea.
Epic fail number 3: hahaha movie joke! Love it
Yeah being afraid of letting people down is a big one for me. It leads to perfectionism, because I want to do the best I can... but sometimes I don't feel like the work I'm doing is good so I stop and do something else... that's called procrastination and I'm good at it :/ Getting better though, and I've gotten some encouraging results at uni recently :)