Freedom to Fail
"Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward"- Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox
Humans are planners. I admit that I am one. I plan most things in my life BUT I truly enjoy when something unexpected happens. Life then turns into an adventure and it becomes memorable.
I believe that we do not like to fail and that is why we plan. We believe that by planning we can control our desired outcome. I believe that the planning process is very valuable but once you are into execution the plan often gets tossed. That does not make the planning process any less valuable. It gets you to think through the path before you have to adapt to the curves along the way.
Drew also said that,
"As you might expect, building Dropbox has been the most exciting, interesting and fulfilling experience of my life. What I haven't really shared is that it's also been the most humiliating,frustrating and painful experience too, and I can't even count the number of things that have gone wrong."
We need to hope that at end of execution that the experience turns out to be 'exciting, interesting and fulfilling.' BUT be ready for it to be 'humiliating,frustrating and painful experience' along the way. We have to detach ourselves from the outcome and put our best effort to make it a success. That is all that we can control. As Einstein observed, "God does not play dice with the world."
Today's question is:
"Do you get discouraged by things going wrong along the way to success?"
"Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward"- Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox
Humans are planners. I admit that I am one. I plan most things in my life BUT I truly enjoy when something unexpected happens. Life then turns into an adventure and it becomes memorable.
I believe that we do not like to fail and that is why we plan. We believe that by planning we can control our desired outcome. I believe that the planning process is very valuable but once you are into execution the plan often gets tossed. That does not make the planning process any less valuable. It gets you to think through the path before you have to adapt to the curves along the way.
Drew also said that,
"As you might expect, building Dropbox has been the most exciting, interesting and fulfilling experience of my life. What I haven't really shared is that it's also been the most humiliating,frustrating and painful experience too, and I can't even count the number of things that have gone wrong."
We need to hope that at end of execution that the experience turns out to be 'exciting, interesting and fulfilling.' BUT be ready for it to be 'humiliating,frustrating and painful experience' along the way. We have to detach ourselves from the outcome and put our best effort to make it a success. That is all that we can control. As Einstein observed, "God does not play dice with the world."
Today's question is:
"Do you get discouraged by things going wrong along the way to success?"
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