by Ralph
on February 25, 2010
Moving on up
Earlier I posted about my wife’s first car and her initiation on the freeways of Los Angeles when they were at their prime. She caught on fast and soon the trusty Vega no longer fit her image. We had just bought our first house, three blocks from the beach in swinging Manhattan Beach and she was ready for a new car- still a Chevrolet but a far cry from the Vega. She was on the hunt for a Corvette and before long she found it. It cost her the princely sum of $6,000 in 1974 and it was her pride and joy. She loved that car and it did have a raffish charm. She drove it to her design jobs around LA and to her teaching gig at Cal Arts. [continue reading…]
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by Ralph
on February 24, 2010
- Image by Getty Images via Daylife
“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.
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