FAIL!

FAIL!

Yep that’s right I said fail! This is possibly the most important thing to learn or learn from in your creative and work life. It helps you to learn what is the right way and wrong way to do something. Now I grew up with parents that taught me this valuable lesson early in my life and as I get older I’m learning a surprising fact about this lesson. Many people are afraid to fail and many times they do not see the value that it can have.

Now I’m not exclaiming that everyone should go out and fail at everything that they do; we need some common sense here people. I’m simply saying that if it doesn’t work, maybe finding out why it didn’t work in the first place will make you better at it next time. We’ve all heard this quote a million times, and for those of you who have not: Thomas Edison spoke about inventing the light bulb and he said : “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work”. By failing we find what works.

Right now I’m learning how to write a blog and effectively communicate my ideas, and guess what? I’m going to fail at some point. It’s going to make me better. So go out and learn how to do something, take pictures, write something, build a kite, or run for office. Learn how to do it better!

If you think about it, I used a quote that Nick Cage used in a movie. I am never going to do that again…