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Nothing Neat and Efficient
Happy Birthday Malcolm. Malcolm Gladwell’s own birthday today coincides with Labor Day in the USA this year, so I’m celebrating it with a post inspired by him on the subject of the working world....
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Failure Budgets
One of my favourite all-time Onion stories – “Nation Begs Its Smart People to Fix Everything Now” – seems to be a bit of life imitating the comic arts this week as the USA elected a couple of the...
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I Forget
Creativity itself might be a direct by-product of failure. That is the rather orthogonal argument by Dilbert’s Scott Adams in his post “Creativity and Memory”… “I have an astonishingly bad memory....
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Starting with Sucking
Christmas ‘Do’ time of year. Last year, our office held its Christmas Office Party by attending the eponymous production of ‘Office Party’. Sort of a participatory performance art parody of Office...
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Embracing Blows, Difficulties, Limits and Losses
Julie’s Burstein’s ‘4 lessons in creativity’ (thanks Isley) is really 4 embraces of failure… Embrace Blows – “Being open for that experience that might change you is the first thing we need to...
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No Idea What You Are Doin
“Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That’s how well they go together.” – Neil Gaiman, ‘American Gods’ There are few writers who can span the genre breadth of Neil Gaiman from novels to...
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Making Up Dances
“No one else could tolerate me so if I wanted to dance I was going to have to make up my own dances…People often come to me and say ‘I know nothing about dancing’. I saw stop right there, you got up...
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Creative Destruction
Joseph Schumpeter’s birthday today. The coiner of the failure embracing oxymoron “Creative Destruction”. The volcano eruption that creates a new island. The typhoon that carves a new coastline. The...
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Embracing Bad Ideas
If you want to celebrate National Writing Day today, a bit of embracing failure might be called for… “As Kandinsky says, ‘Everything starts with a dot.” Sometimes the hardest thing in writing a...
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Embracing Bad Music
Another gem from my top family contributor to the blog, our son Chase. He shared this video piece about embracing “bad music”. I certainly appreciate the value of injecting experimentation,...
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