My brother Ben and his fiance Cori are now engaged. Congratulations you two!
“The second-most important thing you will do in your entire life, from amniotic sac to deathbed, is screw up. And I'm not restricting the discussion to your creative output either; I'm talking the entire kiwi fruit.
The most important thing you will do is deal with screwing up.
Bet on it.
As acceptance takes less energy than denial, and available energy is one of the major limiting factors on creativity, let's continue this investigation by aligning with acceptance...
We have penicillin because Alexander Fleming screwed up. We have iodine-doped plastics that conduct electricity as well or better than copper because a grad student of Hidek Shirakawa's screwed up. We have pthalocyanine oil paints because an insecticide chemist screwed up. We have The War of the Worlds because Giovanni Schiaparelli's translator screwed up. We have quantum theory because God laughed, and Heisenberg got the joke when Einstein didn't.”
- Freff
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."