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Evidently the best way to make a perfect clay vase is to fail.

A LOT.

I’m not a fan of the term “Fail, but fail forward”. Psychologically, due to our school system of spoon feeding a thought, if we get the wrong answer you fail, don’t pass go, you are a failure… or they spoon feed you the answer to “move” to the next level.

The concept is right. Fail but fail forward. Instead of thinking of your outcomes as pass or fail, they are all “practices”.

John Maxwell tells this story from the book Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, written by David Bayles and Ted Orland, of a ceramics teacher splitting the class in two groups, A and B.

Group A was to create the perfect vase by the end of the semester. Group B was to make as many vases as they can. Quality doesn’t matter. At the end of the semester both groups brought their vases. Group A, had great plans and technique written on paper, but no vase. Group B presented a perfect clay vase. and a pile of “failed” attempts. Due to group B practicing over and over in the process of “make as many as you can” they got better and better by the end of the semester they did both, a perfect vase and a mass amount of bad vases. Group A was discouraged in their attempt because if they tried to make one and it didn’t come out perfect they couldn’t move forward… They failed. But Group B was focused on making as many as they could and learned from the process of making bad ones how to make the perfect one.

Jon Acuff (This must be a John/Jon thing) calls if “doing reps, in his book “Start”.

Today instead of failing forward, let’s think of it as practicing, let’s practice what our calling is. Will you mess up? Yup. That’s ok, learn from it and do it again and again and again. When you come to the end of the “semester” you will be a pro.

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