#25: To Err Is To Wander
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In This Episode of The Say The Word Podcast…
We’re talking about:
what it means to make errors or mistakes, how it impacts our creativity
an excerpt from William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways
how curiosity is at the heart of embracing error as a tool
Here’s where the action’s happening in today’s episode:
[00:46] - welcome
[00:58] - why this book is so important to me
[05:03] - an excerpt from William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways
[06:32] - “error” and creativity
[09:27] - perfectionism
[11:46] - recasting “error"
[12:42] - application to our lives
[13:21] - farmer parable
[14:22] - reference to episode 14: Multifarious Possibility
[14:49] - reference to Daniel Pink’s The Power of Regret
[17:02] - what’s at risk
[18:16]- role of curiosity
[19:43] - Bell and Edison
[22:06] - Ingrid K.’s quote
[23:40] - next episode’s book
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