When making mistakes is a good thing

I’ve been learning how to create videos for about two years now, and I’m getting fairly good at it…but I still only learn new things on a ‘need to know’ basis. After all, why drive yourself nuts if you don’t need to, right?

-mutters- Yes and no.

If you’re happy doing the same thing, over and over again, then making mistakes can be a terrifying and completely negative experience. But the truth is that mistakes force you to overcome inertia. They force you to seek out new solutions, or re-jig existing ones. They force you out of your nice, comfortable rut, and sometimes, what you find out there is so much better than what you had.

As you’ve probably guessed, this exact same scenario happened to me today. I made a mistake right at the start of my latest project, and by the time I realised how much of a problem it would become, I’d already spent hours editing. I won’t bore you with a blow by blow description of what I finally discovered, but I will say that it’s shown me some fixes I wasn’t even aware of before.

So if you’re not interested in gaming or videos, you can leave now. Otherwise you’re welcome to watch a short video [31/2 minutes] which looks simple, but wasn’t.

Have a great weekend everyone,

cheers,
Meeks