{"id":783,"date":"2023-07-04T07:18:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T03:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=783"},"modified":"2023-07-04T07:18:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T03:18:33","slug":"knott-do-able-or-do-able","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/04\/knott-do-able-or-do-able\/","title":{"rendered":"Knott Do-able? Or Do-able?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doorstep at-your-feet delivery, touch screen inspired command and control at our fingertips, the increasing absence of humans in any interaction with an organisation( and therefore the superfluousness of our emotions) and many such in our zeitgeist has made us the sacrificial lamb at the altar of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>ease <\/em><\/span>and<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> convenience<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the school industrial complex, we were taught\u00a0<strong><em>compliance<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0from an early age.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Non compliance equalled failure<\/em><\/span>, mind you, we were made to believe that. In order to amplify compliance, people in authority have instilled in us not just a fear of failure, but worse, a fear of fear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"reader-text-block__paragraph\">The diktat going around is that of <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ease<\/span><\/em> and <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">convenience<\/span><\/em>. And the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>freedom from the fear of failure<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>A\u00a0fear\u00a0of weakness only strengthens weakness<\/em><\/strong><\/span>. You are only adding fuel to the fire. Fear of failure is a mental virus that stops us from taking risks and trying things in life. It tells you a scary story. It says you are not good enough, and things will turn out terribly bad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/FAY-LURE.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eloise Ristad<\/strong>\u00a0put it beautifully &#8221;\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">When we give ourselves permission to fail, at the same time, we give ourselves permission to excel<\/span> &#8220;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The reason it\u2019s hard to push ourselves, even when there\u2019s no external downside of doing so, is our fear of fear of failure. That feeling, the feeling of insufficiency and doom, pushes us to seek the comfort of compliance instead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Easily do-able<\/em><\/span> is the default whereas great work be it for enterprise, art, music, literature, new inventions etc stem from us allocating our time to things that may not work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Failure<\/em><\/strong>. The perspective would be to <strong><em>see it as a lure<\/em><\/strong>( to create or make things better) rather than see that as a speed breaker.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An interesting throwback on failure can be witnessed in this article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandknewmag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>BrandKnew<\/strong><\/a> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandknewmag.com\/what-designers-can-learn-from-the-museum-of-failure-yes-it-exists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>&#8221; What Designers Can Learn From The Museum Of Failure (Yes, It Exists) &#8220;<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to remember that &#8221; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>fear is a reaction, creativity is a response<\/strong><\/em><\/span> &#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doorstep at-your-feet delivery, touch screen inspired command and control at our fingertips, the increasing absence of humans in any interaction with an organisation( and therefore the superfluousness of our emotions) and many such in our zeitgeist has made us the sacrificial lamb at the altar of\u00a0ease and convenience. &nbsp; &nbsp; In the school industrial complex, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/04\/knott-do-able-or-do-able\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Knott Do-able? Or Do-able?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[163,684,1621,1620,1622,200,1623,1306,1619,1230,1624,1625,160,719],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-compliance","tag-convenience","tag-ease","tag-eloise-ristad","tag-enterprise","tag-excel","tag-fail","tag-failure","tag-fear","tag-fear-of-failure","tag-lure","tag-school","tag-weakness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}