Failure as an Option

Failure as an Option

Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame gave a great talk about failure at Maker Faire.

  • Sometimes it’s the things you think are going to be simple that take the most time and energy in reality
  • I don’t know, I’m making this up as I go along isn’t a very good long term strategy
  • Assuaging with a woman to forget your troubles is a terrible idea…most of the time.
  • Failures are deeply important parts of your character
  • Failures give shape to your intuition
  • Things worth doing are worth risking failure for

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Michael is the founder of Evadot.com and as such can often be found cavorting with penguins or eating herring. Michael can be reached at mike@evadot.com and at michaeldoornbos.com and on twitter as @mrdoornbos