Interesting

Over the past 5 years, I’ve watched a lot of people learn to blow glass in our studio.  What strikes me is how people are afraid to make mistakes.  People who end up being pretty decent glassblowers made a lot of mistakes while learning.  They didn’t get discouraged but analyzed the failures and adjusted their technique.  I’ve been watching a lot of TED recently (which is a fantastic resource for lectures on the most obscure subjects) and ran across this lecture which talks about how as a society that we have been conditioned to fear failure.