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Aug
17

I Sincerely Hope You Fail

Nothing personal, but success is probably the worst thing that could happen to you.  Because success is what causes us to cling to the present.  It’s what seems to validate the “proven” way of doing things, and makes us defend against change.  Success is ambivalent; it leads us to the well but it refuses to tell us how deep that well runs, leaving too many of us to lives spent defending shallow waters rather than striking out and finding new and untapped sources on our own.

Failure, on the other hand, is concrete.  Failure says “no.”  Failure is happy to hand you a piece of the puzzle — the one that won’t fit — and then trusts you to solve the rest of the riddle yourself.  Failure holds us in high expectations, as adventurers, scientists, thieves; it knows most of us cannot possibly be happy with lives spent repeating the same tried and true methods, day after day, growing old and pale from lack of insight.

Failure respects us; success condescends and divides.

So as much as I’d love to wish each of you all of the greatest success in the world, between you and me — and because I do care — I hope that you openly, honestly, truly and totally fail, again and again.

Because if I didn’t, then tell me, just what kind of friend would I be?

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  • Wild success seems creative poison. I'd agree with that.

    My favorite quote -- the one that's the tagline for my site -- is from Samuel Beckett:

    "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
    Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

    This seems the right position to me. The inevitability of failure, the necessity of hope despite that. Hope is what allows our failures to be creatively enriching and not just fucking depressing.
  • I've failed more than I've succeeded so far; but I look forward to the future where my failure is already factored into my success! After all, every failure is a step towards success. So we cannot be fooled by the falling down, for the victory is in the getting back up again no matter what. As is quoted by Mary Schmich "Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself."
  • I once attended a speech by Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corp. For many years, DEC was one of the strongest computer manufacturers--and then they plummeted. In the speech, Ken made an interesting claim: that early *success* is what ultimately killed DEC.
  • Frank
    You're right. Nobody looks at this stuff anyway... Let me restate... Great post!
  • I think what you're getting at is that failure is a necessary requirement for success. We all fail some time, and we have to understand and experience failure in order to understand and experience what it is to succeed.

    If we succeed all the time, our success consumes us. If we fail all the time, we either become disheartened and eliminate ourselves from the gene pool of services, products, etc., or we become more resilient and try harder so that we succeed.

    It's a survival of the fittest argument, no?
  • Frank
    For one who offers a Social Media Crash Course, did this conversation go against anything that you tell your clients in that course? It could only discredit both you and your company. This has actually been the worst first contact for potential business that we have had. And yes, we do it anonymously so as not to influence the response based on company name and potential business. Three BS answers to a legitimate question. Thank you. You have gotten exactly what you have been searching for, FAILURE.
  • Not a problem, Frank. I'm sure posting anonymous, context-free comments to people's blogs has been a fruitful way for your company to vet potential service providers, since everyone else on the web is all too eager to respond honestly and earnestly to every nameless visitor they encounter.

    Paradoxically, you refuse to divulge information about yourself because you believe that being misleading is a sound approach for your businesses, yet when you don't receive straightforward answers to your context-free questions, you consider that to be unprofessional. I'm unconcerned with your opinion, but I am amused by your approach, and I really do wish you well on your quest for knowledge. I'm sure you'd wish me the same; perhaps we'll both find our successes at the end of a rainbow of failure.
  • Frank
    I see you can be irritated rather easily by a simple question. Was the question inappropriate based on your blog article?
  • Frank
    Who seems to be irritated here? I just asked a serious question as to how you reconcile the obvious need for success with you blog comments. Obviously, not with a lot of thought!
  • If there's one thing I don't do, it's think. I leave that to the experts.
  • I think failure breeds success.

    I've learned from my failures what does and doesn't work - as well as who really backs you up when the chips are down. Everyone's your best bud when you're 100% successful - you find out who, when the chips are down, puts in more effort and steps up the challenge and who by their actions are just not cut out to be entrepreneurs. You learn who is talk - and who you can actually count on.
  • Frank
    Oh, you got me there! But you did not answer my question.
  • Ah, but Frank, if I spent all day answering questions from anonymous people, I'd never have time to write these blog posts that confuse and irritate them.

    Yes, obviously, anyone who hires me will fail because it's in my own best financial interests to sabotage both their business and my own. Because anyone can help your business succeed, but how many people will openly admit that their advice will drive you to ruin?

    Of course, if you don't like what I have to say, you don't have to hire me. There are legions of other freelancers out there who can help your business succeed phenomenally. I just happen to be the exception.
  • Frank
    Why should anyone hire you to do what you do? So they can "truly and totally fail"?
  • So you're saying I should remove "guaranteed eternal success" from my list of services offered? Done.
  • I'm not sure Justin, if I can agree with this at all. Guess it depends much on one's definition of success, failure, and respect. I don't tend to view Success or Failure as if they are outside forces at work upon you or things that happen to you. Rather, I see them as the perception of one's own expectations.

    Failure tends to reflect expectations that fall above where I am or where I think I ought to be, and success measures how well I am aligning my expectations to my resources or my resources to my expectations.
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