{"id":2884,"date":"2014-11-17T14:33:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T19:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/11\/failing-forward\/"},"modified":"2014-11-17T14:33:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T19:33:19","slug":"failing-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/11\/failing-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I\u2019m moving from stills into video production and to learn more I recently attended some seminars where I heard a phrase that immediately struck a chord with me: \u201cfailing forward.\u201d&#0160; Of course!&#0160; That\u2019s the perfect metaphor for how one should approach a new and daunting path &#8211; we\u2019re bound to screw up, so be sure you\u2019re taking something from the experience that advances you toward the distant objective.<\/p>\n<p>Came across an excerpt from the marketing guru <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Seth Godin<\/a> that speaks to this strategy:<\/p>\n<p><em>The object isn\u2019t to be perfect. The goal isn\u2019t to hold back until you\u2019ve created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b8d0923fd7970c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BouldersSun\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b8d0923fd7970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b8d0923fd7970c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"BouldersSun\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160; I\u2019m moving from stills into video production and to learn more I recently attended some seminars where I heard a phrase that immediately struck a chord with me: \u201cfailing forward.\u201d&#0160; Of course!&#0160; That\u2019s the perfect metaphor for how one should approach a new and daunting path &#8211; we\u2019re bound to screw up, so be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}