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“Creativity is about freedom. In order for people to be free to create, they need to feel free to fail. You can’t fear failure. If you want to create a world that values creation above everything else, first and foremost you have to take fear out of the equation. You have to create a culture that can accept failure, live with failure, not be fearful of failure. So much of what we do in life as businesspeople is failure-averse. It’s amazing how many businesses and management teams and people I have met make their important decisions based on fear of failure, tripping up, or being ostracized. The driving force for them is not success; it is failure avoidance. No. You need to embrace failure.”
Hip and successful advertising executive Donny Deutsch says this about failure in his autobiographical book, Often Wrong, Never in Doubt. No need to embelish. The quote speaks powerfully enough.
Very powerful words bud. Not sure who he is but I will be checking out what kind of work he does.
.-= Ryan Hanzel´s last blog ..Spending the holidays away 🙁 =-.
He is an interesting guy. Not necessarily my role model but he is creative and I like this perspective.
Ralph,
A great quote and very powerful. Like Ryan, I’ll be checking his stuff. Thank you for sharing.
Regards
Paul
.-= Paul´s last blog ..Forgiveness =-.
“free to fail” is hardly acceptable in many corporations. Failure means career suicide, and less bonus.
.-= scheng1´s last blog ..My colleague committed suicide =-.
That is right. Many corporations are not motivated by success, just survival. A lot of us learn what to do because of our jobs and that handicaps us in other activities