Before You Kill Yourself: a suicide prevention podcast.
Jun 22, 2026 · 18 min · 12 segments
In this episode, I explore why failure is not something to hide, but something to study, share, and even celebrate. Drawing inspiration from the “Flops” exhibition at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, I…
Leo FlowersHost
Okay? And this came up for me because I was reading an article in the New Yorker about a museum called the Musea de Arts et Metiers.
And one exhibition they have showcases some of history's most spectacular failures.
You know Bic the pen? They had a Bic for women, which was 70% more than the non-gendered Bic, for whatever reason.
And it just had no other functional difference, except it was just pastel and marketed to women.
The exhibit's purpose is simply to de-dramatize failure, to remind us that mistakes are not signs that we are broken.
Okay? And this came up for me because I was reading an article in the New Yorker about a museum called the Musea de Arts et Metiers.
And one exhibition they have showcases some of history's most spectacular failures.
You know Bic the pen? They had a Bic for women, which was 70% more than the non-gendered Bic, for whatever reason.
And it just had no other functional difference, except it was just pastel and marketed to women.
The exhibit's purpose is simply to de-dramatize failure, to remind us that mistakes are not signs that we are broken.
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