Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
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Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.Roger von Oech
Here's my advice Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what' funny about what you' re doing.
Roger von Oech
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Roger von Oech
If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.
Roger von Oech
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
Roger von Oech
By the time the average person finishes college he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes and exams. The 'right answer' approach becomes deeply ingrained in our thinking. This may be fine for some mathematical problems, where there is in fact only one right answer. The difficulty is that most of life isn't that way. Life is ambiguous there are many right answers - all depending on what you are looking for. But if you think there is only one right answer, then you'll stop looking as soon as you find one.
Roger von Oech
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