Brian Johnson uses filmmaking as a metaphor for life: only a fraction of footage makes the final cut, so rejected takes aren't failures, they're part of the process. Adrian Belich says there are no failures, only successes and opportunities. Apply that to your own life.
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Optimize plus one. In our last plus one, we pulled some more wisdom from Robert Be Zois Diener's Courage Quotient. Specifically, we focused on some wisdom from a chapter called Be Willing to Fail. Now, I love Thomas Edison's wisdom that he failed his way to success. And I love Winston Churchill's perspective that success consists of going from failure to failure without the loss of enthusiasm. But Robert shares another perspective that I really loved. He tells us, I quote, the Academy Award nominated documentarian Adrian Belich. Genghis Blues has articulated this exact point to me perfectly. There are no successes and failures, according to Belich. But there are only successes and opportunities. When I make a movie, I shoot hundreds of hours, each of which has the potential to make the final cut. Most will not. The film that winds up on the cutting room floor shouldn't be seen as failure, though. Each frame was an important part of the overall process. Even those that didn't get ultimately used think about that. Hundreds of hours are shot to arrive at an hour and a half movie. Let's bust out a quick napkin math calculator. Hmm. Less than 1% makes the final cut. Was the other 99% a failure? Of course not. Let's apply that wisdom to our lives today.
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