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Grow Through Failure

from Infinity Loop by Abstraction

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I've been thinking a lot lately about the idea of failure and how it's not necessarily something that should be shied away from or, or even really scared of. I think that failure is important in the process of creation because without failure there isn't often any progress.

Through this, I think about weeds. When I am weeding the garden I notice all of the ways that these plans intentionally have points of failure.

Some of them break away easy so the roots remain and they can regrow. Some of them, like dandilions, are designed to be destroyed because that is the best way of propagating the seeds. The idea of propagation and progress through failure and destruction is really interesting to me.

And I don't think that failure is something that you should be ashamed of. Failure is something that allows you to move forward, it gives you a direction to grow as a person and as an artist.

Because without failure you don't have anything to learn from, you don't know all of the mistakes that you've made so you don't know how to avoid them in the future. You only have knowledge, not wisdom.

So when failure does happen, take a moment to examine it. Be mindful of what happened and why it didn't work the way you intended it to. Because failure isn't the idea of doing something wrong. That's how you learn, that's how you grow.

True failure is doing something wrong and not learning anything before trying again, or not trying again at all. Cuz success isn't interesting. Success is the completion of a project. It's not, it's not how you grow, success isn't growth.

Failure is what pushes us forward, and I think it's important to keep that in mind.

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from Infinity Loop, released November 4, 2022

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