These mushroom burgers seemed like a good idea at the time. Recipe NOT coming to a blog near you.
I’ve been thinking a lot about failure. First I watched Brene Brown’s inspired TED talk, where she labeled TED the “failure conference.”
I can be ALL OVER THE PLACE when it comes to setting goals, sticking to them, following through, and keeping focus.
When Brene Brown says that vulnerability isn’t weakness, and that getting up on stage and showing our vulnerability is the bravest thing we can do, we all instinctively get that.
In the first episode of a series that ran on Yahoo called Failure Club, creator Morgan Spurlock said that the show itself is “my failure club,” as he unsuccessfully pitched it to network after network for seven years. Their response, “Pitch us a show called the Success Club, and preferably we’d like to see the people succeed in 8 weeks, 13 tops.”
Instead, the Failure Club’s co-creator Philip Kiracofe told the group, “We want to make failure a magnificent benefit in your life.”
It also struck me that this notion of The Critic (which came out in the writing workshop I just took) was rampant in all of these people’s inner dialogues. Direct quote: “For Lesson Two I’m expecting: more pain, more fear, more humiliation…”
But as they continued to meet, continued to set small goals and push themselves to achieve them, they began to show truly inspiring inner growth, if not outward success.
A truly terrible cheesecake I made that went straight into the dumper.
As I continue to push myself to try new food combinations, offer classes, and move out of my comfort zone, it’s inevitable that I’ll be feeding the compost pile.
But mostly I am just plain inspired by the idea of embracing failure, like a cold glass of water right in the kisser.
What would your big, hairy, audacious goal be, if you weren’t too afraid to fail?
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Hi!
I LOVE the idea of this, a failure club. A place to come and share that experience.
This is something I’ve been thinking about too. If all we do is what we know and all we do is what we are good at, well there just can’t be that much growth or learning going on can there?
What if failure was just the marker that you’re finally reaching farther. Marking the fact that you’ve left “your box.”
If you aim at failure, then your aiming at something new, unknown, an experiment.
Loved this, thanks!
Kel
Kel, it’s so true that as adults we stay in our comfort zones. And there’s really no room for improvement or growth or excitement there. I think these people are so brave, and am so glad they came up with this concept. Thanks for writing.
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Hey, I’m all for this! I love it and have had many a failure in my ‘long’ day. How else can we live to eat another day, and have it taste and look good, only through trial and error, or the big failure. Sometimes you have to play with food, understand the ingredients to make it happen properly. Composting is important too! Thanks for this liberating post.
Wendy, thanks for taking the time to say hello. I find the idea of failure liberating, too!
Thought-provoking, as always – will ponder on my walk this morning.
Thank you Liz. I can’t take much credit for this but I AM inspired! Although, I had been collecting failure pix for a while, so the germ of the idea was there.