On a podcast I listened to the other day someone suggested “failing gloriously.” This advice has been attributed to a few notable artists but I hadn’t heard it before and mistakenly thought I heard flailing gloriously. I just can’t get behind the idea of setting out to fail, but I boy howdy can I set out to flail! In fact it’s now my personal goal at certain points of the creative process. Not always of course. There’s a time for meticulous, even painstaking effort. There’s a time for polishing the stone. There’s a time for thought and reflection and a time for education and research. But there is definitely a time to turn the music up, grab a big brush, and a bigger attitude with which to begin flailing gloriously!
Flailing Gloriously
Flailing Gloriously
Flailing Gloriously
On a podcast I listened to the other day someone suggested “failing gloriously.” This advice has been attributed to a few notable artists but I hadn’t heard it before and mistakenly thought I heard flailing gloriously. I just can’t get behind the idea of setting out to fail, but I boy howdy can I set out to flail! In fact it’s now my personal goal at certain points of the creative process. Not always of course. There’s a time for meticulous, even painstaking effort. There’s a time for polishing the stone. There’s a time for thought and reflection and a time for education and research. But there is definitely a time to turn the music up, grab a big brush, and a bigger attitude with which to begin flailing gloriously!