The person who fails the most, wins!

Stephen King, one of the most beloved, famous and bestselling authors ever, often goes to writer’s conferences. After he talks for a little bit he says, “Any questions?” Inevitably, someone raises their hand—I’m paraphrasing here—and says, “Mr. King, you are one of the most beloved, famous, and bestselling authors ever. What kind of pencil do you use to write your books?” It’s almost as if knowing what kind of pencil Stephen King uses will help them be more like Stephen King.

People often go up to folks who create and say, “Where do you get all your good ideas?” This is a really bad question. The right question is, “Where do you get all your bad ideas?” Because if you have enough bad ideas, you’ll have absolutely no trouble having enough good ideas. That’s what people who create do, they let the ideas out. They sit and they do the work and the ideas come. Bad ideas, good ideas, it is not yours to judge until later. Right now, your job is to only produce. After you produce, you can curate. You can select. You can censor. But now, have bad ideas. Lots and lots of bad ideas. The second half of that rule: once you’ve got the best that you have you must ship it, interact with the market and engage and see what happens.

The rule is simple: the person who fails the most will win. If I fail more than you do, I will win. Because in order to keep failing, you’ve got to be good enough to keep playing. So, if you fail cataclysmically and never play again, you only fail once. But if you are always there putting your work into the world, creating and starting things, you will learn endless things. You will learn to see more accurately, you will learn the difference between a good idea and a bad idea and, most of all, you will keep producing.

​What's your FQ- Fear Quotient? What level is your effort? What do you do when you fail? 

• What role did I have in failure?

• What can I have control of?

• What could I have done differently?

• What can I learn from this?

• What can I do to make myself better?

Take photos of your failures because they will help remind you of what happened. Look back at your mistakes to grow as an artist!