Testing testing, 1 2 3. Well, wish it was this easy to test my imagination. I always wonder if writing is a good thing to do... from a kind of a zen-ish perspective. One good thing about it that it makes me think.

Guess it's my vanity. Don't have many of those, but this intellectual one is certanly not something to dismiss. However, I have hard time publishing or producing stuff that I'm less than proud of, which makes it awfully hart do publish anything. Just look how long time it took me from creating this blog to posting anything on it. Well, I'm trying to lower my expectations on myself and just make these posts amusing or at least interesting to read. If I fail, well what the hell, that's another thing that i need to practice.

Not that I never fail, only rarely. The trouble of never or rarely failing is that it is evidence of slow or no progress. Not good. All of us feel good when we are good at what we do, when we excell at our hobbies or do a really good job at work. I don't even want to get into why this is so, I guess most people can accept is as a fact for now. Well, with slow progress at whatever we do, it will be hard to keep up with the competition, and for this we don't even have to compete, conscientiously at least.

So what is it that makes us so afraid of failure? And, what can we do about it? Also, what is a good ratio of doing things safe and experimenting and risking failure? Obviously, we can't fail all the time since this wouldn't lead to improvment of a skill but a stagnation or even loosing skill. Always playing it safe would than probably be the better of the extremes.

Comment, and I'll see in what direction my next post will go.