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I searched with out success.  Sure, I consulted the Nationwide Day Calendar, and it wasn’t there. 

I’m saddened to let you know that you simply missed “Nationwide Discuss Like Shakespeare” Day (April 23).  Maybe that information doth brings heat cheer to your coronary heart.  Satirically it was the identical precise day as “Nationwide Take a Likelihood Day,” which introduced a possibility for essentially the most reluctant to maneuver out of their consolation zone. 

However I couldn’t discover it: Nationwide Unhealthy Thought Day.  I suppose that it doesn’t exist. 

The closest theme was Worldwide Day of Failure, an occasion sparked by college students at Aalto College in Finland who reasoned that honoring failure would assist entrepreneurs with their failure phobia and immediate extra start-ups within the nation.  Began in 2010, the Failure Day has mistakenly—er, deliberately—caught on in 17 different international locations. 

But even Worldwide Day of Failure doesn’t seize what I used to be looking for.  I’m looking for that day of failures that didn’t morph its option to success.

Take McDonald’s, as an illustration.  In 2014, the restaurant chain examined bubble gum that tasted like broccoli.  The concept didn’t sprout, however the rationale behind the try was clear.  The concept, based on a chief govt on the time, was to encourage wholesome consuming amongst youngsters.  Nonetheless, the younger tasters who tried the gum had been confused by the style.  Mixing broccoli with gum didn’t match the success of pairing, say, peanut butter and chocolate. 

Unhealthy ventures like this should be saluted in a Nationwide Unhealthy Thought Day. I give credit score to McDonald’s for some brave considering earlier than being stopped by attainable younger bubble-blowing prospects. 

Dr. Tina Seelig (2009), the Director Emeritus of the Stanford Expertise Ventures Program, described a “worst concept” train for lessons to indicate the worth of seemingly not-so-great concepts.  After deciding on an issue troubling a sure business, similar to attracting extra prospects to a theater, the teams of scholars develop a greatest concept and a worst concept for the problem.  To the shock of scholars, she shreds the gathering of “greatest concepts” earlier than directing them to take the “dangerous concepts” and rework them into good concepts. 

The train factors to potentialities.  In her phrases, “This train is a good way to open your thoughts to options to issues as a result of it demonstrates that the majority concepts, even when they give the impression of being foolish or silly on the floor, typically have a minimum of a seed of potential” (Seelig, 2009, para. 5). 

Planting that broccoli seed could also be a useful concept ultimately, sufficient in order that it’s not even talked about on a Nationwide Unhealthy Thought Day. 

References:

Nationwide Day Calendar.  (2023, April 23). What day is it?  https://nationaldaycalendar.com/what-day-is-it/

Nationwide At present. (n.d.) Worldwide Day for Failure–October 13, 2023.  https://nationaltoday.com/international-day-for-failure/

Picchi, A. (2014, November 14). Why McDonald’s created bubble gum-flavored broccoli. CBS Information.  https://www.cbsnews.com/information/why-mcdonalds-created-bubble-gum-flavored-broccoli

Seelig, T. (2009, August 13). The worst—I imply BEST—concept on this planet.  Psychology At present.  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/weblog/creativityrulz/200908/the-worst-i-mean-best-idea-in-the-world

Yuko, E. (2023, February 7). 125 attention-grabbing details about virtually all the pieces.  Reader’s Digest.  https://www.rd.com/listing/interesting-facts/