I found an entry in my writer's notebook. I'm certain I wrote it down from some reading I'd been doing, or something I'd heard. I know I didn't invent the observation myself. Yet it was a true theoretical generality:
"Most success is built on failure."
My exegesis of this is that failures teach us what we need to do. We address the thing or the action that has failed, and build a solution. When we overcome the failure involved, that's the success.
It is another way of saying "Necessity is the mother of invention."
So I extend the entry:
Most success is built on failure. Don't despair. (That is, don't give up hope. Don't give up.)
Don't despair from failures. Build from them.
JEG
I found an entry in my writer's notebook. I'm certain I wrote it down from some reading I'd been doing, or something I'd heard. I know I didn't invent the observation myself. Yet it was a true theoretical generality:
"Most success is built on failure."
My exegesis of this is that failures teach us what we need to do. We address the thing or the action that has failed, and build a solution. When we overcome the failure involved, that's the success.
It is another way of saying "Necessity is the mother of invention."
So I extend the entry:
Most success is built on failure. Don't despair. (That is, don't give up hope. Don't give up.)
Don't despair from failures. Build from them.
JEG
Here is the lead story from Tom Peters' pushmail "Tom Peters Times!" I copy it in here so you have the links. Blog on. JEG
Tom Peters Times! February 2005
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Publish and Prosper The First Blog Business Summit If you're not up to speed on the blogosphere, the plethora of posts resulting from the recent Blog Business Summit in Seattle can give you quite an education on the business and technical aspects of blogging, as well as the pros and cons of creating a blog site for your company. Leading online communicators presented ways to "leverage current real-world blogging techniques, tools, and platforms to promote and enhance your ventures." Unfortunately, Tom's plans to attend were thwarted by snow, but Erik Hansen managed to get out of Boston in time and posted regular reports at tompeters.com. Erik got to Seattle in time to attend a birthday party for Robert Scoble, keynote speaker and Microsoft blogging strategist. Among the other sessions he reported on were a discussion of how individual blogs can generate income and tips on the writing aspect of blogging. Considering the topic, it's a given that you can plenty of comments and first-hand reports from the conference, including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's interview with summit organizer Steve Broback and follow-up article. You can also get slides and handouts from most of the presentations at the Blog Business Summit site. |