Re: Importance of Failure

guenther.vonKnakspott_at_gmx.de
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: 22 Feb 2005 22:53:38 -0800

jstevh@msn.com wrote:
> One type of post I've noticed come up every once in a while is a post
> where some person is informing me that if I don't have everything
> figured out, I shouldn't post.
>
> Another of the same variety, informs me that I should have every
detail
> worked out formally before I dare to put something out in public.
>
> However, in real research failure is part of work, and public failure
> is not as important as wasting time with flawed ideas.
>
> I still like the sports analogy of baseball, and I think a LOT of

I Hope you're not thinking of the movie "The untouchables" (the one by
Brian de Palma).

> people in intellectual circles just don't get how important lessons
are
> in sports, like how even the best players mostly fail--and VERY
> PUBLICLY FAIL.
>
> Many of you could not handle it. You'd pee in your pants at the very
> thought of being in front of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or
even
> millions of people to try something where you knew going in that more
> than likely you would fail--though I doubt ballplayers actually think
> of that going in--as you believe that the way the world works is that
> the top people, the best people, make it their business to never
> publicly fail.
>
> That's just totally wrong.
>
> The top people, the best people, fail quite publicly, and in quite
> grand ways, over and over again, but other people in considering the
> fantasy of being at the top of their game, believe that the reality
is
> perfection, or near perfection, where failure is avoided at all
costs.
>
> The best way for a ballplayer to avoid failure at all costs is to
quit
> the game.
>
> Some in looking at my many failures over the years have gone on to
give
> me more advice, like I should just quit.
>
> Yet that was years ago. I think telling me to quit is a silly way to
> publicly fail, especially when I can talk about my accomplishments
> since the first people told me, ordered me, to quit.
>
> For over five years I toiled without a major result, and now I have
> four.

You have got not a single "major" result.

> These results have a real world impact, though many try to deny them,
> and that impact grows with each passing day.
>
> Now the people who are looking at public failure are the people who
> spend so much time trying to control me and what I do.
>
> I'm more or less, to use another football analogy, like a massive
> linebacker who just keeps pushing forward, with lots of little people
> dragging at me in various ways, fighting to hold me back--and
failing.
>
> MASSIVE FAILURE is often just a way to move forward, as you look at
> what went wrong, where your mistakes were, and try to see where to go
> next.
>
> But I don't pretend that it's some magnificent thing that I do keep
> going--in spite of the orders to stop--as I basically do what I
enjoy.
>
> If you learn nothing else in this life, you should learn that you
will
> always fail at trying to convince someone that they do not enjoy
> something they do enjoy.
>
> I enjoy what I do. I don't like the failures, but I accept that they
> are part of doing what I enjoy.
>
> Some of you will make posts that basically boil down to trying to
> convince me that I don't enjoy what I enjoy, and you will stupidly
> fail, as I do enjoy what I enjoy.
>
> But then again, failure is part of life. Maybe some of you, in
failing
> to convince me, can learn from your errors.
>
> I will keep doing what I clearly enjoy, and take the failures with
it,
> just like a professional ballplayer.
>
>
> James Harris
The title of your post has nothing to do with its contents. You are
just rationalizing for yourself by using ridiculous analogies to
sports. Failure would play an important role in your life, if you
learned from it. Instead you act like an *** and turn against
anyone who has the patience to go through your crap and point out the
errors to you. Failure to you is something to forget asap. Even in this
here post, where you talk about failing, you keep claiming to have four
major results. You need to realize that you are fooling no one but
yourself.

regards

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