I've noticed lately just how much we've started to focus on the value of failure. It seems we're understanding that failing is how we learn, how we grow, how we gain experience. But have we seen any significant change? Have we accepted failure individually?
After reading Do The Work by Steven Pressfield, there was one idea that caught my attention and was something I was struggling with. The battle between learning vs. creating, and how the latter is what is truly important.
Both storytelling and humor are very powerful skills to have in today's world, yet their benefits are not widely acknowledged. It's these "soft" skills that will be vital for future success in all endeavors.
What is the true value of your degree? What does it mean? Is it worth at least 16 years of education to get? And are those 16 years actually lessons learned or just busy work? The true value appears to be opportunities and credibility, which don't make much sense to me
One of a number of great quotes from writer Oscar Wilde, but this one is by far my favorite. So what does this mean? Essentially Mr. Wilde is equating gaining experience to making mistakes. I feel this is a brilliant insight because its so true that all experience really is from mistakes. We don’t learn further about things we already know, we learn about things that we don’t know and that either manifests in a mistake in one of two ways. Either its internally something you’re unsure on and take a chance to see the outcome. You may be right in the end and it could be the correct decision, but that unsureness is essentially you worrying about making the wrong choice, making a mistake and that in itself is a lesson learned. The other side of the coin is quite simply making a true mistake and when you do, its something you usually learn from quite quickly. All in all a great quote from Oscar Wilde and a revealing fact that we need to make mistakes to learn and grow
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