Brian JohnsonChairman & Philosopher in Residence at Heroic

Be prepared to go too far.

23 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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Short spoken monologue by Brian Johnson encouraging risk-taking and treating mistakes as part of the creative process. He gives a practical three-step approach: acknowledge willingness to take risks, revisit the moment of the mistake to learn what to do differently, then let it go. Emphasizes that failures catalyze growth and that willingness to 'go too far' enables discovery of limits.

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Only those who risk going too far can discover how far they can go. So you need to be prepared to go too far and then repair it and then 1, 2, 3, it. So the 1, 2, 3. When you accidentally are mean spirited or rude or too aggressive or whatever, which will happen. One, I'm proud of myself for being willing to present this side of the coin because I haven't much. Two, When I said that, I could have said this. Go right back to the moment where you made a mistake. See it as a mistake. Remember the director of a movie films hundreds of hours of film to. To get an hour and a half. Were the scenes that didn't work wasted time? No. They're part of the creative process. So go back to that moment where you made a mistake and then think about what you could have done a little bit differently and what you will do differently next time and then let it go. Wow. Then your, your quote, mistakes, your failures, whatever you want to call them, are the catalyst to your growth. And rather than never actually getting to a point where you actually won or learned, you're wondering what it might be like in order to actually take that risk.