I’m curious what you think of….
http://dreams.honda.com/#/video_fa
Some might refer to it as the “Danica Patrick Honda film.” But it’s actually more than that. It’s a study in how failure is the secret of success. But it *does* feature an interview of Indy-Car Driver, Danica Patrick, telling the story of her first Indy-car race, which placed her dead in the middle of a crash. “We bump up against that [scary] feeling as much as we can… You’re constantly on the brink of crashing. Because, that’s the fastest.” John Kessler, a Honda engineer in Performance Development, testifies, “When you fail, it’s not so much of a bad thing — as long as you learn something from it.”
What’s your take on the video? Do you agree or disagree — that failure is actually the secret of success? If you do agree, can we not push the envelope a bit more in the next 10 years, pushing farther, harder, faster, than ever before in world missions? What do you think?
I think some of the best things we can bring to cross-cultural work as it relates to training national workers is our failures… being transparent letting other know what know to do.
I agree we should not be afraid to make mistakes, our task is urgent, mistakes will occur but better to try. As for the goal, it is not necessarily speed. We need to know those we serve very well, including the pace they can move at. I.e. allowing the needed time to accomplish the final goal.