Failing Upwards: People Who Win Even When They Fail 🏆🙄 Explained

While it can often feel like such a struggle to get ahead for most of us, for some people it just seems like no matter what they do, they keep on moving up – even when they seem to constantly fail. There are a number of reasons people end up in these kinds of protective bubbles that keep them floating upwards. This trope shows up in movies and tv in a number of different variations, from the hilarious to the kind of horrifying, and everything in between. So let’s take a deeper look to analyze what this trope really shows us about this real world problem.


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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:37 Satirical incompetence
01:53 Veep
02:26 The Office
03:14 Succession
05:22 Failing... to fail?
08:28 The biggest reason for failing upward
10:30 The real takeaway from the trope


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