A stab at writing down my modus operandi

October 12, 2008 – 3:07 pm

Fail! Publicly! Spectacularly! Get hurt in ways that you can heal from – you know more when you pick yourself up again.

This isn’t saying “hurt yourself,” because that’s pointless; this is saying that living like I do comes with a fair amount of bumps and scrapes no matter what, and that making your crash landings have a point – that you learn – is (1) the only way I really can learn, and (2) the only way I can learn fast enough to keep myself alive when taking future spills, since opportunities to fail – and fail hard – seem only to increase as time goes by, and I will not stop taking them.

What do you think?