Winston Churchill once said, “Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.” That’s a nice sentiment—I mean, by and large it’s good to let failure be a learning experience, to not let it discourage you from following your dreams. But…hear me out here: What if you’re just a hot mess? What if every time you go from one failure to the next, you leave a pile of bodies in your wake? Can you be a little TOO good at failure? Should you sometimes maybe acknowledge “Hey, maybe this thing I’m trying to do isn’t one of my strengths”? I think some of the people in this week’s episode would have left the world a better place if they’d thrown in the towel.<br /><br />Registration is now open for CrimeWave 2.0! Visit crimewaveatsea.com/CAMPFIRE to get your discount code for $100 off your cabin and a private meet-and-greet with us! The cruise is Feb. 8-12, 2027.<br /><br />Sources:<br />Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test<br />CBC news: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/oak-ridge-st-thomas-psychiatric-treatment/<br />IFL Science: <a href="https://www.iflscience.com/canadas-dark-history-of-giving-lsd-to-prisoners-69821" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.iflscience.com/canadas-dark-history-of-giving-lsd-to-prisoners-69821</a><br />Washington University: <a href="https://library.washu.edu/news/bizarre-but-true-happenings-at-the-1904-olympics-in-st-louis/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://library.washu.edu/news/bizarre-but-true-happenings-at-the-1904-olympics-in-st-louis/</a><br />Wikipedia, "Truth serum": <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_serum" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_serum</a><br />CBC's "The Fifth Estate," episode "Psychiatric Treatment or Torture? The Oak Ridge Experiment"<br />Hidden Persuaders: http://www7.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuaders/blog/happened-oak-ridge-psychiatric-unit/<br />Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief<br />Smithsonian: <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-1904-marathon-became-one-of-the-weirdest-olympic-events-of-all-time-14910747/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-1904-marathon-became-one-of-the-weirdest-olympic-events-of-all-time-14910747/</a><br /><br />Follow us, campers!<br />Patreon (join to get all episodes ad-free, at least a day early, an extra episode a month, and a free sticker!): <a href="https://patreon.com/TrueCrimeCampfire" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://patreon.com/TrueCrimeCampfire</a><br /><a href="https://www.truecrimecampfirepod.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.truecrimecampfirepod.com/</a><br />Facebook: True Crime Campfire<br />Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/truecrimecampfire/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.instagram.com/truecrimecampfire/?hl=en</a><br />Twitter: @TCCampfire https://twitter.com/TCCampfire<br />Email: [email protected]<br />MERCH! <a href="https://true-crime-campfire.myspreadshop.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://true-crime-campfire.myspreadshop.com</a><br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support</a>.