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theorising about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”
- From the book Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
    If you always do things the same way, how are you ever going to find a better way? Try new approaches out and see what happens. Yes, you will fail once in a while, but failing is a great way — sometimes the only way — to learn.
    Make mistakes faster
    Randy Nelson from Pixar has another great saying:
“You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.”
    No matter how many times you tell yourself that “failure is not an option”, failure always remains an option. Closing your eyes to this fact only makes you more likely to fail. Putting pressure on people to always succeed makes mistakes more likely because:
     
People who work under pressure are less effective.
People resist reporting bad news.
People close their eyes to any signs of trouble.
    This is especially true when people are punished for making mistakes. Management über-guru Peter Drucker provocatively suggested that businesses should find all the employees who never make mistakes and fire them, because employees who never make mistakes never do anything interesting. Admitting that mistakes happen and dealing constructively with them when they do makes mistakes less likely.
    Failure is often the path to new, exciting opportunities that wouldn’t have appeared otherwise. Closing your eyes to failure means closing your eyes to these opportunities. Menlo Innovations, an IT company in Ann Arbor, Michigan has a big sign hanging in their office that reads “Make mistakes faster!” They recognise that occasional mistakes are a part of doing anything interesting or innovative, and that the key lesson is to fail early and learn from it.
    Be free
“Last year my company started looking for a new building for our headquarters. The old one was designed for 120 people — we were nearing 200, and things were getting seriously cramped.” 
Anette, a 38-year-old secretary at a Danish shipping company looks a little stressed just thinking about the old overcrowded offices. Then she smiles. 
“And here’s the cool thing: instead of making the decision on their own, management invited all employees who wanted to, to participate in looking for and choosing a new building. Ten people formed a workgroup and we ran the whole process from the very beginning, talking to other co-workers about what their dream office looked like, looking at different possibilities and then recommending one to management, who accepted our decision and signed off on it right away".
“Because the decision involved so many passionate people, we got a really good feel for what we were looking for in an office and that enabled us to choose just the right building. And best of all, when we made the decision almost everyone in the company accepted it instantly. They may not all have agreed that it was the best possible option, but they’d all had the chance to contribute and everyone who cared about the choice felt they’d been heard.”
    As I previously said, psychological studies show again and again that a fundamental basis for our happiness is the ability to control our own environment. When we are involved in the decisions that matter to us, when we can participate actively in creating our future, when we feel active rather than passive, we are much happier. Contrast this with a work environment where big decisions that directly affect you are made without your knowledge and without your input.
    I admit that there is a problem here: while you can freely choose to be positive, to learn or to be open, it’s difficult to participate unless you’re invited to do so and your workplace and managers encourage it. This particular factor therefore relies more on your work environment than the others. But this is no excuse. If you only participate when you’re actively