This is an amazing video on the importance of failure, by Adam Savage. My favorite quote? “It’s important to be lonely and attentive when you fail, because that’s when the change in your character takes place.”
“Let’s make better mistakes tomorrow. Let’s scratch our heads and give up and wake up and try it again. Let’s fail at digging the well the first three times to get it right the fourth. Let’s build faster horses, and then strap rocket ships onto them. Let’s start a company, let’s watch it fail, and then let’s start another one.
Let’s be the boss. Let’s take the boss down. Let’s order too much of something just to see where our limits are. Let’s take a chance precisely because it might fail. Let’s take the hard way out… Let’s have a breakthrough. Let’s have a breakdown. Let’s agree that bruises fade, bones heal, hearts mend, and that tomorrow we’re right back on that horse and that this time, THIS TIME! we’ve at least got a rocket strapped to its back.”
Let’s Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow: Essay originally published in GOOD and essay and artwork is by the brilliant Mike Monteiro. Photo of Mike’s work used in this post found via 20x200 here.
I really like this…
Reblogged from We Are The Digital Kids
