Learn to fail, it ain’t so bad!
I am going
to be in BC for the month of June. I am doing two workshops in Vancouver. The one
at the Shadbolt Centre is full with a waiting list but there is a public
lecture that I am doing on Thursday that is open to the public.
I am in the
process of developing a lecture/power/point entitled “Learn to fail, it ain’t
so bad!” I figure I am an authority on the subject.
I would
like to develop the talk crentering on the idea that failure contains
information that leads to knowledge. In essence I have learned as much from my
failures as my successes. What worked yesterday I am finding out doesn’t
necessarily work today. Chaos equals change, change equals growth which equals
ART.
If you have
any great tales or pics of failure you had that your learned from please share
them with me. I’m all ears! Unlike Vincent I decided to leave the other ear in
tact.
I believe
that true entrepreneurs never think of failure as an option. What seems like
failure to others is water under the bridge to the entrepreneur as he/she is on
to the next dream. The man that has no imagination has no wings. - Mohammed Ali
my hero
The other
workshop I am doing in Vancouver is with the Aberthau Potter’s Guild on Jun
23,24,25 and it is only open to members.
As of this
week I’m actually making vases and not jugs. My friend Steve the Potter stayed
over last night and we concluded that people look at Bruce Cochrane’s pots and
say “how” did he do that? They then look at my pots and say “why” did he do
that? I figure as long as you got em’
looking you’re doing something right. Indifference
is the worst critique of them all.
Bruce
and I will be participating in the Potter’s Market in Guelph, Ontario along
with a bunch of really fine potters on May 28th and 29th
Comments
Somehow you'd think they'd have awarded that failure, right?
We learned that big time in developing flameware, and the test cycle was at least 30 days long. It had to go through a cooking/heat cycle 30 times before the typical failure. Slow learning, but we did figure it out.
When I was a kid, dad once told me after I hit my finger while nailing some boards together, "If you practice enough, you can hit that finger every time!"
I didn't practice very much, and to this day I have trouble hitting my finger when using a hammper.
Failure is just a point of view.
LT