Failing is Doing
Every two weeks, Design is Love has their InWords discussions about a different topic. The most recent of which is asking people to share their biggest obstacle and how it affects their work and well-being. In my case, the biggest obstacle is usually fear. Fear of failure, making wrong decisions, offending someone, etc. (Heck, there’s a bit of fear just in typing this.)
Honestly, the fear is pretty irrational most days. This often leaves me stuck though, unable to make any sort of progress. I’m not naive enough to think I’m the only person who gets stuck like this. It seems pretty common.
Thinking about my own failures reminded me of a personal story from Frank Chimero involving a parachute, a conversion van and failure. (Way more interesting than what I’m writing, I assure you.) There’s something he mentions that makes a lot of sense to me.
“Every movement is positive, simply because it’s movement.”
What I’m realizing (or maybe accepting now), is that in order to get anything done, we have to disregard these worries. For me, it’s just working and letting ideas out. They might be crap… and that’s okay! It’ll put me one step closer to doing something better.
