You Will Take A Chance At Something In The Near Future
February 1, 2010 - By Bobby Solomon - Category: Design
The fortune above is just slightly nebulous (and the illustration is even mildly racist) but I found it last week while cleaning and it couldn’t have been more foretelling. Starting today I’ll be working on a giant new project that I don’t exactly want to name yet, but I will in the coming… well, sometime in the future.
The project itself probably couldn’t be a bigger challenge, which is exactly why I said yes. As a lover of all things design this could either be my greatest success or my biggest failure, though I’m confident it will be the former. But that’s sort of the fun of it, you know? I really don’t have any fear of failing or succeeding either way, because no matter what happens I’ll learn from my experiences.
I have my Mother to thank for this outlook. She raised me with a boat load of self-confidence, which is probably why people love to call me an “elitist” in comments. But I feel that my confidence is one of my biggest strengths, that I’m not afraid to speak my mind and that there’s nothing to fear in the idea of failing. As human beings we all fail, and failure is what gives us character. How we deal with these failures though is what shapes our character and who we are as people.
How do you deal with failure? Do you wallow in self-pity, dwelling on your failures? Or do you take an honest look at what you did wrong and learn from those mistakes? There’s no sense in dwelling on the past while you could be spending the time planning your future. Success rises from the ashes of failure.
Bobby
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If you've got something to say, keep it positive.bobby!!!! i think we were separated at birth. i love your outlook here and totally agree. i recently quit my job in SF and moved to NYC to chase my dreams. fail, succeed… blah blah blah… go, do, discover, evolve!
ps – I also have my mother to thank for this outlook. ditto on boat loads of self-confidence. yay to that!
That’s great Bobby.
Best wishes for you and your new project and I hope your post bring confidence to the people out there.
Last year I started my first “big” project, I learn so much about it.
I’m only 22 but 2009 was my best year so far. It’s kind of difficult keep that pattern as one grows…
Make 2010 best year ever.
ps_my english sucks, you probably know that already.
Cheers,
Santiago.
yeah you were lucky. Your mother was smart. Failure was a big problem with my parents. The more you failed the more they made you feel like shit for it. It’s easy to recognize and solve the problems from bad parenting, but i can’t help but think maybe if failure wasn’t such a horrible aspect to some people, we wouldn’t beat each other up over the natural learning process of life.
this kind of reminds me of this: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentler_philosophy_of_success.html
Failure = experience. Now you know how not to do it next time. Kudos for not being afraid to fail, not that you will.
I’m so curious about this big project of yours, but one thing is for shure: you’re gonna nail it, with that self-confidence and talent is gonna be a great success, let us know about it, would you?
i know what it is!