Sunday, March 14th, 2010
at 11:28am
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This must have been one of the best motivating videos I have ever watched.
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
at 4:04pm
We all have that idea (or ideas) that want to make happen, but don’t have the time or would get started on it as soon as we finish this current task, or that this time of the year is not the best time because all the stars are not aligned the way they should… If you have just the smallest bit of ambition you would probably know what I am talking about. (otherwise you suck!!)
Well I came upon this post by Seth Godin talking about how Tim Burton had a poster of all the failed projects that he was part of.
This is a guy that is behind some of the greatest movies of all time like Batman, Edward Scissorhands, you can check the whole list here http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/ but just because he does fail sometimes he should stop. NO!!
The reasoning behind this is stop postponing whatever you wanna do and do it now and stop being afraid of failure. it’s inevitable you would fail most times than not but eventually the satisfaction and the rewards from that single win would out weight all those failures.
One key element of a successful artist: ship. Get it out the door. Make things happen.
The other: fail. Fail often. Dream big and don’t make it. Not every time, anyway.
Tim got his ideas out the door, to the people who decided what to do with them. And more often than not, they shot down his ideas. That’s okay. He shipped.
So do it and move on!
Hope this was helpful.
Hatim