Title: No Innovator’s Dilemma Here: In Praise of Failure
Context: If success was easy, everyone would have invented a better vacuum cleaner that doesn’t suck by now. Wait. What?
Synopsis: James Dyson, inventor extraordinaire, talks about the inextricable link between success and failure, the ability to ask questions as a core component of creativity – especially in education – and the value of hard work. The ability to keep going forward in the face of failure, or rather, in the face of not the right answer, is the hallmark of breakthrough success, not the master stroke of inspired imagination. Anyone can have a good idea. Ideas are cheap and easy. The tenacity to take those ideas to fruition is the hallmark of of true creativity.
Best Bit: “By fostering an environment where failure is embraced, even those of us far from our student days have the freedom to make mistakes – and learn from them still. No one is going to get it right the first time.”
via wired.com
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