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> themes [...] wall to climb over Urban dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fail http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fail upw
by zwp 15y ago
> themes [...] wall to climb over
Urban dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fail http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fail upwards) dates this term 2009.
I originally saw "fail upwards" in alpinist Mark Twight's writings[1] ten years before that: his sense is to keep going up and over the summit even when things have gone terribly wrong: you may no longer have the option to descend the way you came up.
[1] "Extreme alpinism" (passage can be found on google books)
- biotech 15y agohttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fail+upwards http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fail+upwards
- dj_axl 15y agohttp://www.npr.org/2011/05/04/135985392/tavis-smiley-if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-fail-up http://www.npr.org/2011/05/04/135985392/tavis-smiley-if-at-f... http://www.tavissmileyfailup.com/ http://www.tavissmileyfailup.com/