Leticia Gasca, Co-founder Fuckup Nights, Talks About the Art of Messing Up

Author Vinod Rajasekaran
Is our culture of celebrating failure just giving us an excuse not to succeed?

Why It Matters

Director and co-founder Leticia Gasca quit her day job to grow Fuckup Nights, a global series to celebrate, liberate, and learn from what did not work. Failure is much discussed, but has the pendulum swung too far now? If we can accept failure, perhaps we have come to glorify it too much. Now, it’s about finding the balance.

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