We must learn to honor our errors. A trick will only work for a while, until everyone else is doing it. To advance from the ordinary requires a new game, or a new territory. But the process of going outside the conventional method, game, or territory is indistinguishable from error. Even the most brilliant act of human genius, in the final analysis, is an act of trial and error. “To be an error and to be cast out is a part of God’s design,” wrote William Blake. Error, whether random or deliberate, must become an integral part of any process of creation. Evolution can be thought of as systematic error management. Finally, I will quote an expression I overheard in Paris and which changed my life, “It is easier to act our way into a new way of thinking, than it is to think our way into a new way of acting.” So let’s get started.
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