Embracing Failure
This entry was posted on Saturday, November 8th, 2008Do you want to improve your problem solving skills? Maybe you would like to push yourself to become more creative and generate better ideas?
If we can admit to failing, it will reveal what we don’t know. Once we understand what we don’t know, we can seek relevant solutions to those failures. This process of iterative learning always illuminates some new path- it leads to those “a ha!” moments. Those moments often lead to new directions. The direction is often called progress.
On the light bulb: “I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work” - Thomas Edison
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” - Abraham Lincoln
Embracing failure is absolutely a powerful driver to creativity. I have been exploring the subject for several years in my own blog. One of my favourites focusing on Creativity is http://brucelynnblog.spaces.live.com/blog/Remaining-an-Artist.