Good Stuff
I really love this little book I mentioned in my comment to the previous blog: It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be by Paul Arden, a former Creative Director who now runs a film production company. There was one chapter in particular that stood out to me.
It goes on to have a few quotes on making mistakes from those who know best and who learned best:
"I haven't failed, I've had 10,000 ideas that didn't work." —Benjamin Franklin
"Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt." —Thomas Edison
"There is nothing that is a more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different."—Albert Einstein
Reading and learning about successful people who have made mistakes and still kept following the path to their goal is one way I cope with rejections and my own failures. As the Arden says in the opening pages of the book:
Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have. Without having a goal, it's difficult to score.
The Person Who Doesn't Make Mistakes Is Unlikely to Make Anything
It goes on to have a few quotes on making mistakes from those who know best and who learned best:
"I haven't failed, I've had 10,000 ideas that didn't work." —Benjamin Franklin
"Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt." —Thomas Edison
"There is nothing that is a more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different."—Albert Einstein
Reading and learning about successful people who have made mistakes and still kept following the path to their goal is one way I cope with rejections and my own failures. As the Arden says in the opening pages of the book:
Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have. Without having a goal, it's difficult to score.
posted by J.T. Bock at 10:05 PM
3 Comments:
Exactly.
Thus the reason, we do what we do...or attempt to do.
Failure means we're MOVING...not sure which direction sometimes...but hell, we're moving ;)
I got a fortune cookie once that said, "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
I have it taped to my fridge.
Your lucky numbers are: 25, 1, 44, 34, 47 and 8. :)
Yeah, I have to agree 100%. This is the evolution of thought summed up in some nice quotes.
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