Mick Ebeling, the Eyewriter inventor, observes, “When we hit failure, I start41 to laugh. It’s almost like checking off a box—great, we got that out of the way. Now we’re that much closer.” Experienced creators have always known this. The poet John Keats wrote, “Failure is, in a sense, the highway42 to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.” Those not comfortable enough to laugh at failure might start by questioning its nature, and how we perceive it. What does failure mean to me: Do I see it as an end state, or a temporary stage in
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