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Failure: The Blog 
August 2018
- When This Executive Was Fired, He Took Charge
- Obeying The Speed Limit Has Never Been More Fun
- London Black Cabs Helped Uber Grow
- Bette Graham Created A Product To Fix Her Mistakes
- Flamin' Hot Cheetos Had An Interesting Start
July 2018
- Fear This Instead Of Failure
- Re-Releasing Songs Created Success
- A CEO's Purposeful Mistake
- The Tardy Student And The Unsolvable Problem
- Fixing Potholes Through Graffiti
June 2018
- A Surprising Mistake In The Oxford English Dictionary
- US Army Embraces Mistakes
- Blocking A Hymn
- Eddie Shore Was Truly A Tough Guy
- [Video] Elon Musk Didn't "Pivot" He Failed
May 2018
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness Part 2
- Necessity Turned Accessory: Allen Iverson's Sleeve
- This Doctor Has Continued To Fail
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness
- MIT Accidentally Creates New Smelting Process
April 2018
- Johnny Cash Quit Singing Lessons
- Cruise Control Came Out of Frustration
- Time Spent Gaming Pays Off In The Navy
- Rock Around The Clock Was a Commercial Failure
- Sigmund Freud Should Have Been Discouraged
March 2018
Failure Is Behind Creative Innovation
Being an artist sometimes means following ideas that can be considered absurd or foolish. And Lia Chavez is no stranger to following artistic intuition, no matter how foolish an idea seemed.
When she was young, Chavez took some words from Wolfgang Tillmans to heart:
“You will only succeed if you fail!”
Photo © Flickr User Johnragai
She admitted that, at first, she didn’t understand what he meant. But as her career progressed, she realized what he was trying to tell her; that failing is the force behind creative innovation. Chavez recalls a time where one specific failure, dropping her camera in a puddle, really spurred her toward reaching her goal:
“Freakishly, the camera was salvaged to reveal an image of light gracefully spilt like mercury across a plane of kaleidoscopic geometric space. This moment of haphazardly scribbled light divulged a complex harmony of physical laws which roused my creative intuition from a deep sleep. That silly little moment marked the beginning of my creative life as I now know it.”
Creation comes from failing numerous times before you finally form your idea into a finished product. Sometimes, it is necessary to fail so you can create success!
Thanks to reader Erin Albert for this post idea!
