Failure.

Wow. i'm lovin' it. (Read article below, Why I Hire People Who Fail).

Lately, it's just been one incidence after another. Stringful of crisis-slash-failure-slash-dotdotdot incidences. The latest, happened just late yesterday. A truck driver knocked into my white car. Estimated damage is RM1,400.

So i'm just gonna say this. I'm lovin it. I haven't had much setbacks lately. So i'm just paying my dues. Though it's been an extremely peculiar 3 months of stolen nokia, toyota bumper knocked, iphone dropped into loo, key scratched toyota (twice!), snatched theft iphone, emo-blackmail, online banking issues etc. I look forward. I choose to believe, the bad spell will end sooner or later. Just gotta wait it out.


"When you make a mistake, you're forced to look back and find out exactly where you went wrong, and formulate a new plan for your next attempt. By contrast, when you succeed, you don't always know exactly what you did right that made you successful (often, it's luck)."

We don't just encourage risk taking at our offices: we demand failure. If you're not failing every now and then, you're probably not advancing. Mistakes are the predecessors to both innovation and success, so it is important to celebrate mistakes as a central component of any culture. This kind of culture can only be created by example — it won't work if it's forced or contrived. A lively culture is nebulous, indefinable, ever-changing. Try to package it in a formal mission statement and you just may suffocate it.

".....It took billions of years to create and define all of the world's great cultures — through failure after failure — so it is with arrogance alone that we executives think we can create and define one for our company. To be blunt, cultures are not created or defined by executives; they evolve around the people who make up a company."

- Jeff Stibel, Why I Hire People Who Fail, HBR Blog Network.

More found here.

So yeah, bring it on. i'm lovin' it.