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Sir James Dyson on failure

Making wrongs right

Fastcompany has a fascinating interview with Sir James Dyson here and here.

Hey says:

We're taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven't, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that's very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path.

This resonates deeply with a common theme of Seth Godin's writing - that safe is the new risky.

We all know it's nearly impossible to break from the pack when you're coloring inside the lines - and playful incursions into the whitespace beyond aren't nearly as scary as I remember from primary school, so why do we all invest so much effort in doing things "the right way"?

It's time to learn to play again.

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