Pixar Cofounder Ed Catmull on failure and why fostering a fearless culture is the key to groundbreaking creative work — from brainpickings.org by Maria Popova
Why the greatest enemy of creative success is the attempt to fortify against failure.
Excerpt:
We need to think about failure differently. I’m not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth. But the way most people interpret this assertion is that mistakes are a necessary evil. Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new (and, as such, should be seen as valuable; without them, we’d have no originality). And yet, even as I say that embracing failure is an important part of learning, I also acknowledge that acknowledging this truth is not enough. That’s because failure is painful, and our feelings about this pain tend to screw up our understanding of its worth. To disentangle the good and the bad parts of failure, we have to recognize both the reality of the pain and the benefit of the resulting growth.
How Disney’s Imagineers keep the magic ideas coming — from fastcompany.com by Rebecca Greenfield
Peter Rummell, the former chairman of Disney’s Imagineers, shares inside stories and secrets about how Disney’s teams work together to make magic happen again and again.