Week 4 Post 1 - Failure and Replenishing
Henry Romain
Coping With Failure
- Failure is a critical part of the learning and creative process
- Failure is part of the way up
- Our engine runs on what's wrong: without failure and pain, it wouldn't be running
- Failure points you in the right direction, the necessary direction
- Success: failing, learning, then adjusting
- Adapting along a non-predetermined path
Developing a Network
- Meet people on the same path as you
- Making authentic connections
- Know how to talk to all different kinds of people: club owners, fans, customers, investors, acquaintances
- Conversate with complete strangers
- Unlikely collaborators
- Successful, authentic long-term relationships with people are essential in whatever you are trying to do
This Much I Know is True
- Follow your passion, not the money
- It's not ideas that get funded, it's people
- Keep it simple, keep it focused
- Make a plan, then toss it away
- If you're the smartest person in the room, you are getting bad advice
- Business is personal
- What got you here won't get you there
- When things stop being fun, change it or move on
Learn to Replenish
- Rest is as important as activity
- Be fascinated by something different from your normal perspective and let it energize you
- Insights and inspiration come from many different skills and activities, variety is essential
- Silence a high level of messy ideas
- Do an activity and focus on it for clarity
- Take time off and stay fresh
How do you think we could teach dealing with failure in schools to prep students for this important skill? The same with networking, following your passions, and learning how to replenish?
ReplyDeleteI think if these skills were attempted to be taught in school, students would likely brush them off as more "follow your dreams" jibber jabber that they have heard all their lives. I think, like wisdom, these skills are hard to explain in words rather than through experience. If a student gets an F on an essay he spent many hours writing, he will understand the importance of dealing with failure through that experience. He would realize he has the power to be reactive or proactive. Networking, following passion, and replenishing are all also things that one really must experience to understand. For example, just talking about how musicians should go to art galleries to replenish does not give the student a feeling of replenishment, but it tells them what they can experience to feel it.
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