My man Steve Coulson
is at it again (can I call you my "man"?). In this week's crayoncast (#10) he quotes the British inventor James Dyson, he of Dyson vacuum fame, who said that we should embrace failure, because we only learn from failure, not from success (or something like that). As Thomas Edison said "I have not failed. I have merely found 10,000 ways that won't work." Here's a great blog post about Dyson. And a great interview.
Another man with the initials "JD" thought similarly, American educator John Dewey. Dewey believed that children learn best by doing, by "acting on the world." It doesn't stop with children, either. We're all still trying to make our mark.
The thing is...Plowing into the world of social media is all about trying. So much of what we are seeing in the world of marketing today will require dozens of failures before we get it right.
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