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To: Mark Adams who wrote (135432)	11/21/2001 1:41:27 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 436258

which proposes we must embrace failure and learn from it to prosper People who are successful are just those who have failed more times. Photography has a high degree of failure built into it. I once sat down and figured out the number of pictures I took compared to the number of pictures that wound up being used in the portfolio. It was 2%. Only 2% of the pictures I took wound up making the final cut. In commercial photography the ratio is even smaller and for the most part the more successful the photographer is the smaller it gets so success is directly correlated to failure. Here's a statistic I heard recently (which I question to some degree as to how one would come up with this stat). The average millionaire has been legally bankrupt four times. I took it to mean bankrupt in literal terms, that their liabilities exceed their assets, not that they have declared bankruptcy.

To: Mark Adams who wrote (135432)	11/22/2001 12:46:42 AM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 436258

<There is a book, Innovator's Dilemma, which proposes we must embrace failure and learn from it to prosper.> This is a much more important and all encompassing idea than business. It's very important to allow children to learn through 'experience' rather than having done for them for example. The best skiers aren't afraid to fall obviously... and probably have done it more than medium ones. The idea of 'Experience' is used way too often as a buzzword, but should really be given much more thought than is common in the west IMO. WAY too much emphasis on intellectualization. DAK