Seth Godin doesn't need me to pimp his blog. He does fine without me. In fact, I'm probably only one of several hundred thousand people that read his blog every single time he posts anything.
That being said, today his post really rang home for me. He asks basically if everything we're doing is the best we possibly can. He asks if this were my last post, would it be worthy? And just when you're ready to jump on the train for holding back until you can do everything perfect, he hits with the left hook.
The object isn’t to be perfect. The goal isn’t to hold back until you’ve created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.
It was then that I knew he wrote today's post just for me.
Thank you, Seth.
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Hold it. We thought Seth wrote that just for WWP! [Nice post, though isn't the photo sort of, well, morbid?]
The photo is of Ian Curtis, because at the exact moment I was posting this a relevant Joy Division song came on and a long lost friend appeared in my iChat. So I was happy and wanted to reflect that. I don't see anything morbid about it.
"To do anything else is to waste it all." With a photo of someone who committed suicide (at age 23). Seems dark, just saying.
It also says "Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine."
I put the picture up to celebrate his life, not his death. Maybe it's a half empty/half full kind of thing.