Just finished Ed Catmulls book Creativity Inc, amazon/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspiration/dp/0812993012 Ed Catmull is current president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios. Here is a wonderful article to read if you dont have time right now to read the entire book. brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/05/02/creativity-inc-ed-catmull-book/ Excerpt: We need to think about failure differently. I’m not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth. But the way most people interpret this assertion is that mistakes are a necessary evil. Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new (and, as such, should be seen as valuable; without them, we’d have no originality). And yet, even as I say that embracing failure is an important part of learning, I also acknowledge that acknowledging this truth is not enough. That’s because failure is painful, and our feelings about this pain tend to screw up our understanding of its worth. To disentangle the good and the bad parts of failure, we have to recognize both the reality of the pain and the benefit of the resulting growth. And here is a talk Ed Catmull gave at Stanford University ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=3299
Posted on: Thu, 22 May 2014 09:57:54 +0000
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