​A Friendly Invitation to Learning by Failure

I hate to fail. I expect you do too. But when not failing, becomes not trying, we're on dangerous ground.

It's all too easy to let our fear of failure become an excuse for never stepping out of our comfort zone. In order to get out of this kind of vicious cycle, we need to get a clear handle on how we view failure - and then look at ways to reframe it.

​This week I've been asking myself questions like:

• What might I try if I wasn't afraid to fail?
• Am I disguising fear of failure in perfectionism?
• What if I reframe failure as 'testing', 'experimenting' or 'learning'?
• Can I release more meaningful work into the world, if it doesn't have to be perfect or 'complete'?

With something like an eBook, I can release a version that isn't perfect and then improve it as I go along. But even with my artwork, I return to the same ideas over and over - as most artists do.

So if I don't perfectly encapsulate an idea first time round...? 
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What questions might you ask yourself about failure?