JakeTheSnake
08-14-2007, 12:19 AM
An oldy-but-goody from Wil Shipley:
http://wilshipley.com/blog/2005/11/failure-is-success.html
Some key excerpts:
Wait, where was I? Oh, that's right. Fear. I think what our friend was trying to warn us away from was something I've been trying to fight all my life, which is a fear of failure which is greater than the consequences of actually failing.
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Failing is to be strived for! If you aren't failing, you aren't at the edge of the envelope of your abilities, and if you aren't at the edge, you aren't stretching yourself, so you aren't learning, so you're just wasting time. Failing is how nature succeeds. Evolution works through failure of the poorest (they get et) more than survival of the fittest. Muscles grow because you work them to failure, and they then respond by getting stronger. Your spinal cord learns not to touch fire by getting burnt. Failure is not just handled gracefully by nature, it is critical.
Wil Shipley runs Delicious Monster LLC, a Macintosh software company that has produced the highly-successful and unique software, Delicious Library.
http://wilshipley.com/blog/2005/11/failure-is-success.html
Some key excerpts:
Wait, where was I? Oh, that's right. Fear. I think what our friend was trying to warn us away from was something I've been trying to fight all my life, which is a fear of failure which is greater than the consequences of actually failing.
...
Failing is to be strived for! If you aren't failing, you aren't at the edge of the envelope of your abilities, and if you aren't at the edge, you aren't stretching yourself, so you aren't learning, so you're just wasting time. Failing is how nature succeeds. Evolution works through failure of the poorest (they get et) more than survival of the fittest. Muscles grow because you work them to failure, and they then respond by getting stronger. Your spinal cord learns not to touch fire by getting burnt. Failure is not just handled gracefully by nature, it is critical.
Wil Shipley runs Delicious Monster LLC, a Macintosh software company that has produced the highly-successful and unique software, Delicious Library.