The Center for Ambitious Failure (CAF) held a survey in December to get a better picture of how KAISTians view failure. The <KAIST Failure Survey> included questions that asked KAISTians how they would describe their ① fear of failure and their ② psychological capital, which is a measure of one’s psychological capacity to appropriately respond to failure and face challenges. Moreover, the survey attempted gauge qualities such as ③ psychological safety and ④ failure learning behavior, which serve as indicators describing the culture within KAIST of accepting the failures of its members and learning from failure. CAF plans to conduct the survey annually to investigate how these indicators change year by year. The gathered data will be used to assess the effectiveness of efforts aimed at improving the perception of failure in KAIST and building a better campus failure culture. 

 The first survey was held as an online survey over two weeks from December 27th, 2022 to January 9th, 2023. We received responses from over 700 KAISTians over this period. Among them, a total of 609 responses were included for the final analysis, including responses from 152 undergraduate students (25%), 295 graduate students (48.4%), 40 faculty members (6.6%), and 122 staff members (20%). This month’s newsletter presents a summary of the survey results.