If you’re doing something that’s never been done before, how can you make the perfect plan? Whether it’s an art concept, a picture, a business model, or a meal: you can’t. Innovation, by definition, has no road map. Important: the same goes with creativity. That’s why I like people who “do” and fail, a helluva lot more than people who just sit around and talk about it.
Randy Nelson of Pixar says it more eloquently. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.”
I think this–and many additional ideas in this video–are brilliant.
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For a long time the photography industry has been a very secretive and closed one. If you wanted to make the break into the industry you faced learning the trade by going to expensive schools or spending countless hours learning from the good old trial and err. Thanks to people like you its now so much cheaper to better ourselves as artists. Thank You Chase!
This article resonates with what he talks about:
http://artofmanliness.com/2010/09/29/skydiving-from-space-part-i-joseph-w-kittingers-long-lonely-leap/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArtOfManliness+%28The+Art+of+Manliness%29
You should get HIM on cjLIVE sometime. Or pretty much anyone from Pixar would be fascinating.
When I was a 3D Character Animator years ago, I used to, of course, REALLY want to work for Pixar, so maybe that’s why I’m extra interested in what anyone there has to say.
Since leaving 3D behind and turning to photography, I’ve felt enriched by my experience in my previous career but always worried that I might just be a jack of all trades and a master of none, especially since I continue to be fascinated with “too many” things, photography-related or not.
It’s reassuring to see someone address breadth of experience as such an important aspect of any creative person.
Thanks for sharing!
And the fastest way to accepting “failure avoidance” is poor time management.
Its a great reminder to get out of the house and do. Our generation is quite distracted with technology and social media. While it is a cornerstone of our businesses it can very easily be the biggest down fall.
Don’t just tweet about what you want. Get up and achieve it… then tweet about the experience.
I know I need the reminder occasionally!
Thanks for the post
I could listen to Randy Nelson talk for hours & hours, excellent delivery.
Excellent. Thanks Chase.
Exceptionally profound !!
Worth exponentially more than its 9 minutes 17 seconds !!
Don’t know were you get all this things, but keep ‘em coming
They not only apply to creativity but also to life itself. Thanks Chase!
Henry Ford once said, “Think you can or think you can’t, either way you will be right.”
Its something I remind myself of often. Branching out full time in the middle of a recession has earned me more than a few you have to be crazy looks and comments from people. When it seems nothing is working and the phone is quite I pull my books, quotes, speeches and video’s off the shelf and remind myself not to quit.
Here are my favorites:
“Make no your vitamin” Les Brown
“People’s greatest success often times comes after their greatest failure.” Napoleon Hill
“Let the end of life find you climbing up a new mountain, not sliding down an old one.” Jim Rohn
I trust anything Pixar-related.
Randy is at Dreamworks now.
I am more interested than interesting.
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“The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” – Love this one, although many big companies seam to have forgotten it.
I am more interested than interesting.
why seo？