Michael Jordan "Failure" Nike Commercial

JayMJ23 · 7.5M views · 2006-08-25 · 0:31

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Overview

A Nike commercial in which Michael Jordan lists the shots he missed and games he lost, saying that repeated failure is the reason he succeeds.

On Hacker News

HN invokes it as the classic illustration of learning through repeated failure and iterating, often in startup threads.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2010–2016

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Arts & entertainment (other)Productivity & self-improvement Sports & athletics

What people said

edanm · 2011-06 · Strong recommendation
(Even more off-topic) You really reminded me of Jordan's "Failure" commercial, which everyone should see: [VIDEO]
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jathu · 2016-04 · Recommendation
Reminds me of the Jordan commercial [1] where he mentions he lost more than 9000 shots in his career, lost almost 300 games and missed 26 game winning shots. Amazing commercial (like most Nike commercials). [1] [VIDEO]
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ronilan · 2016-04 · Reference
You failed to link to the original commercial and instead linked to a remake :) ( [VIDEO] Uploaded on Aug 25, 2006)
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