How to Fail

Marc Maron comes back from personl failure with his podcast WTF.
Marc Maron's hit comedy podcast is called WTF.
09.30.2012
(was 10.23.2011)

Failure is a four letter word in America. Most of us do everything we can to avoid it.  But what if we've got the wrong idea about failure - and it's all a matter of learning the right way to do it? This hour, one psychologist's take on how to embrace the fall.  And comedian Marc Maron on the hit podcast that saved his career and his life. And, columnist Thomas Friedman on why the US is falling behind and how we can come back.

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  4. Thomas Friedman on How the US Fell Behind

    Thomas Friedman says the US is falling behind on the global stage.

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