If you don’t fail like this • You will Never Succeed | Jason Silva

so many creative people talk about the
importance of failure right the fact
that it’s okay to make mistakes during
the creative process and to do anything
creative you’ve got to take a risk some
kind of cognitive dissonance is
necessary you need to cross the streams
you need to cross the wires just a
little bit right a little bit of madness
is necessary to connect the dots in a
new way right Isaiah Berlin famously
said to understand is to perceive
patterns that’s in essence what
creativity is Steve Jobs says creativity
is just connecting things but in order
to see patterns and rather in order to
recombine existing patterns into new
forms and new shapes you need to be
willing to blur the boundaries between
your thoughts right to be an
associational thinker right it’s a free
style to ride a butterfly effect in
thought but again most of the time we
play it safe right we map out what we’re
gonna say we pre-planned what we’re
gonna do we make a list we have a set of
steps we are prepared we’ve pre-scripted
our speech right we are responsible
we’re not going into a situation blind
but again once in a while I friends we
need to be willing to make a mistake we
need to be willing to fail it is only
when we risk making a mistake that we
might find ourselves improvising
inventing innovating our way back to
where we want to get to do you
understand what I’m saying
think of this rent as a metaphor for the
creative process right I have somewhat
an idea of what I want to say right it’s
related to creativity and it’s related
to cognitive dissonance and being
willing to make a mistake that’s all I
know then they start jamming about this
and what happens is I might lose myself
in some
of thought right I just kind of lose
myself in the moment the metaphor might
like confound me and before I know it I
don’t even remember what I was saying
but somehow that’s when the creativity
kicks in because somehow I’ve got to
bring it back I’ve got to rope it in
I’ve got to remember where I’m going
I’ve got some incoherence right in the
Bardot’s between one statement and the
other and in doing so and in risking
screwing up the video and the tape it is
in that risk that occurred that the
innovation that the creativity that the
original thoughts might emerge and
usually does and before I know it I’ve
landed and I feel like wow man I just
took a trip man
you know I just sailed into the great
unknown and I brought it back and here
we are
that is what creativity is all about
that is the risk that is the willingness
to fail and make a mistake that is
crucial to the creative process to all
my fellow thinkers writers painters
poets original doers out in the world
trying to come up with an original
revision to an impact humanity through
their art and their artistry go forth
but be willing to fail be willing to
make a mistake pick up the pieces and
try it is a ride and we’re all in it
together my friends and if we know each
other and respect each other and rate
each other’s failures and failings we
will get to a much better much higher
much more holy place and isn’t that
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