Allan Adams | Failing at the finish line
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- "But the failure didn't get undone. I licked my wounds and tried it again. That's life!” Leadership can mean living with the fear of letting down your collaborators, your volunteers, and yourself. What if that fear comes true? At FAIL!, Allan Adams shared his experience in this emotional, yet pragmatic, speech. So inspiring!
Allan Adams is a physicist and PI of the Future Ocean Lab at MIT. Adams earned degrees in physics form Harvard, Berkeley, and Stanford, and spent three years in the Harvard Society of Fellows, before joining the faculty of the MIT Dept of Physics in 2008. Along the way, Adams developed a passion for ocean conservation and photography; his documentary work and art have been exhibited at the New England Aquarium, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Boston Museum of Science, the The Charles Hayden Planetarium, The Franklin Institute, and beyond. In January of 2017, Adams opened the Future Ocean Lab, devoted to developing low-cost, low-power sensors and imaging technologies for marine research, and to using those technologies to document the world’s changing oceans. Adams is also a dedicated educator and public speaker - his introductory lectures on quantum mechanics from MIT have been viewed nearly two million times, and his TED talks have been viewed more than that 3 million times. His 2016 TED talk about the LIGO discovery of Gravitational Waves was chosen as one of the top 10 TED Talks of 2016.
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Inspiring and from the heart. Always get back up and try, try again. 14:24
This video should have a lot more views.
I agree! It is just beautiful. Can you help us sharing and spreading?
@@FrancescoMariaBenedetti sure thing
Thanks @@all462, very kind of you!
prof. allan adams ... i don't know what to say . thank you for this talk it's nothing like i imagined it to be . thank you so much for this .
Amazing. I've read a lot of about the success of these scientists and engineers in Tech Review, Nature, etc. , but this talk gives some clues on what it takes to persevere in the face of ambitious research projects.
You go to work every day and you are having as much fun with it as you can. When you start serious research, you try to make sure that there will be some useful final product. It's not random ideas that are being explored. Things start in the shower, then move to discussions with colleagues and students. Then you scale it up, informally with proposals and then formally with funded research that implements each step of those proposals systematically. As you are learning along the way, chances of failure are becoming less, not higher.
awesome Talk
What happened just at the end, yeah I know it's a story of failure and missing a large error, when everything looked to be on track. It would be nice to know the detail of the failure, which my gut tells me is something to do with deep water immersion (hard to test).
He superficially takes the position that he "failed", but what he is really doing is telling us how wonderful he is for admitting failure. Humble bragging.