Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Welcome Failure
Lifehack.org: "Very often the best way to test an idea is not to analyze it but to try it. The organization that implements lots of ideas will most likely have many failures but the chances are, it will reap some mighty successes too. By trying numerous initiatives we improve our chances that one of them will be a star. As Tom Kelley of IDEO puts it, ‘Fail often to succeed sooner.’"
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Recently, this has really had to become part of my daily routine. There are often times were I find there is so much planning that the troubleshooting never happens until it's too to go back and find another solution. Especially with classes this semester, I think this is a vital way to think about things; it helps a lot in the end.
I like that this article encourages praising failure. I feel like being a student can be so much about getting good grades, that even if you are told to take risks and experiment, ultimately it is the success that is rewarded with an "A." I think that the best way to encourage experimentation is to praise risk taking that results in failure. It's great when you can step back and look at a "failure" and find things about your work that were actually really wonderful. I think this is what makes art so scary, because as a student there is this two-way pull. As the article points out, this exists outside of accademia too, because in theatre you have the critics to worry about.
I admire that this article enourages failure. However, it's an argument I've heard many times before. Failure has this negative presence but people want others to understand it's actually a positive experience because of the lessons you learn. I just don't undestand how much good this kind of article does. You may be more comfortable with failure but it no ways changes how the people you work for take failure. When it comes to money, there is a limit on the number of mistakes you can make before somebody punished your failure.
This was actually a pretty interesting article. Here in CMU Drama we have a lot of tools and resources that we can use in order to learn how to use tools and to fail and succeed at things. As my class mates have seen I have constantly failed and failed many times in my first attempts towards many design projects however since there are so many tools and different ways to do things as long as you have the time you can try and learn many ways to do things. Penn State's class where the more daring you are and the more failures you get the better your grade is really funny. While that is funny it is also a great idea and hopefully it will get students to break out of their shells and try new things.
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