{"id":3267,"date":"2016-03-08T12:30:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T17:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2016-03-07T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T16:12:07","slug":"complex-problem-fail-your-way-to-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2016\/03\/complex-problem-fail-your-way-to-a-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Complex Problem? Fail your way to a solution."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3268\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sandbox.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3268\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3268\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sandbox-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CC Gil Garcia via Flickr\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sandbox-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sandbox.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CC Gil Garcia via Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2016\/03\/the-story-behind-toy-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Catmull of Pixar<\/a> states, failure is necessary to producing successful creative work. If only because the first idea is not always the best idea. It requires reworking, shapeshifting.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/99u.com\/articles\/7072\/why-success-always-starts-with-failure\" target=\"_blank\">In this article<\/a>, Financial Times columnist Tim Harford provides principles that you can use to accomplish this so-called \u2018productive failure\u2019:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n\t1. \u201cYou have to cast a wide net\u201d<br \/>\n\t2. \u201c\u2019Practice failing\u201d in a safe space\u2019\u201d<br \/>\n\t3. \u201cBe primed to let go of your idea if you\u2019ve missed the mark\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen over\u00a0past two days that\u00a0folks\u00a0continue to come back to: 1. Trying\u00a0as many ideas as possible and 2. Ensuring you are in a safe space. <\/p>\n<p>This can be easier said than done. What are your tips to sandbox ideas in your work?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Ed Catmull of Pixar states, failure is necessary to producing successful creative work. If only because the first idea is not always the best idea. It requires reworking, shapeshifting.\u00a0In this article, Financial Times columnist Tim Harford provides principles that you can use to accomplish this so-called \u2018productive failure\u2019: 1. \u201cYou have to cast a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,679],"tags":[497,683],"coauthors":[519],"class_list":{"0":"post-3267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conversation","8":"category-failure","9":"tag-failure","10":"tag-sandbox","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3271,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}