If the launch is successful sometimes they don’t know if they just got lucky. Rocket scientists almost celebrate when a rocket explodes. And then that shift in thinking really helped him, instead of “I wrecked that painting and wasted that piece of paper”, it was, “okay, next time I need to put more water down.” he moved from frustration to a growth mindset. He decided that he would start painting with the mindset that each painting was a test. Lee would constantly fail in every painting and would get frustrated because he had to buy these big sheets of expensive paper. Watercolors are really difficult to master. Initially in almost every painting he would fail. “I tested those theories and they didn’t work and so I am going to change the process, or change…” You don’t have to be a victim, you can choose learn, and then move forward.Īrt and life really is a lifelong learning process both on the micro and macro level. No matter what happened you can check it off your box, whether or not you caused the failure. Hopefully that’s the lesson from any sort of failure, you’ve learned something, if it didn’t work you can check it off your list, okay this didn’t work, and then you can keep moving forward. Typically Jake’s goal, regardless of what caused the failure, he tries to take as much responsibility as possible for what happened, or for fixing the situation moving forward. You can’t always control the outcome of the failure however, your reaction to failure is up to you. There is another way to categorize failures: Participation awards, now in youth sports there are always participation rewards, but kids know it is a game and there are actually winners. Will thinks that this was because they weren’t ever rewarded for trying and failing. Will once had a student and they wouldn’t try anything with paint and were so afraid to make a bad mark, they were paralyzed. That model is good for math, it’s either right or wrong, but with a painting there is not just a right or wrong way, sometimes you have to wipe the paint off and redo the painting but that failure was apart of the successful journey. That conditions us in a bad way for being artists. All the results we see with report cards are all about moving up. In school we don’t get a good grade for trying and failing. Everything in school is all about moving up, what grades did you get? Were you right or wrong? We’ve been conditioned to not use trial and error for learning. We have also been conditioned to not look at trying and failing as a learning and forward moving experience. One problem we have is that we look at failures as failures. By 100 paintings Lee was starting to find his stride and get pretty good, at that point at least it wasn’t daily failure. He would keep tick marks on a sheet until he got to 100 and by the time he got there he was way better and more confident. He was going to do 100 paintings and the wouldn’t start being judgmental of his work until he hit 100 paintings. It was tough and he really struggled with it it was quite disheartening. ![]() It was a daily failure, for the first couple of terms. ![]() Every day Lee would sulk into class and he would have done his best on his paintings and then would look at what everyone else had done and he knew that he wasn’t at their level yet. The first 3 or 4 terms were kind of rough. When Lee started art school he came to it really without any experience drawing or painting. Babe Ruth was so confident that he would point over the fence to say he was about to hit a homerun before going to bat. He went for it every time, it was all or nothing. This is what lit his inner fire.īabe Ruth, he had the home run record and the strike out record at the same time. This failure is the impetus of his success. Michael Jordan, didn’t make his 10th grade basketball team. He lost his first fight and then, after the fight, was claiming that he would be the heavyweight champion of the world. “People who succeed are people who failed but they keep going anyway.” Let’s start with a good quote, that’s how all good podcasts start, right? High-level getting fired, getting divorced, these are life changing and really can be cause for a lot of introspection. ![]() Mid-level they sting for like a week or a month. ![]() Low-level these are the daily upsets and letdowns. There are a few different types of failure: What does it mean to fail? How do you deal with failure? And how do you move on from it? We hope that you can come away from this episode feeling empowered to keep trying, failing, learning, and growing. As we talk about our successes, inextricably linked to that is our failures.
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