Keep moving forward
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"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious … and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." – Walt Disney
I love this quote. I first heard it from the Disney movie Meet the Robinsons. I still cry every time I watch that movie, but admittedly I'm a crier.
This has become my own personal mantra, "Keep moving forward." And I know my wife feels the same and it's kind of our unofficial family saying.
To me, it means push past the failures and just keep trying. In the movie it talks about how good failure is, and that's one of the things that the main character has to learn. The inventor in the movie makes several failed prototypes until he finally invented something that changed the world. No matter how many or how horrible the failures were, he just kept going.
I also love the part in this quote about opening new doors and doing new things. Not being afraid to learn new things and explore new territories is so important to creativity. Just not being afraid in general. Not being afraid of failing, not being afraid of the new, not being afraid of a blank page, not being afraid to put yourself out there. "… curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
What is your mantra? And how do you help yourself to keep moving forward?
The fear of failure is debilitating to creativity. That is one of the reasons, I believe, that we are where we are right now, culturally. We are taught to fear what we do not understand. While Walt Disney said "heck with that" and instead let curiosity guide him and his globally massive (now it is anyways) company. It's fun how "just keep swimming" in Finding Nemo echoes this sentiment.
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