I was watching television this morning and Whoopie Goldberg was talking about how she got her first one-woman show in New York. It seems that she was performing in a club in Manhattan and (the director) Mike Nichols was in the audience. He liked her act and offered to create a show for her in a Broadway theater. Whoopie said that she didn’t know if that was such a good idea. What if she was lousy? Mike Nichols asked if she’d ever been lousy before and Whoopie said “sure!” His reply was, “Then it’s no big deal. You’ll just be lousy on Broadway.”
To me, that was a brilliant and insightful reply. The two greatest obstacles to success are the fear of failure and the fear of criticism. But every great success is preceded by many failures and accompanied by countless criticisms. It is the lessons you learn from these failures and your ability to rise above those criticisms that make your success possible in the long run.
But that’s just my opinion. What do you think?
To me, that was a brilliant and insightful reply. The two greatest obstacles to success are the fear of failure and the fear of criticism. But every great success is preceded by many failures and accompanied by countless criticisms. It is the lessons you learn from these failures and your ability to rise above those criticisms that make your success possible in the long run.
But that’s just my opinion. What do you think?
posted by ckg @ 9:36 AM
1 Comments:
At 11:28 AM,
Cty said…
I think it's a great comment. Far too much of our lives is spent wondering what other people think of us (especially when they're wondering what we're thinking of them). Fear of failure can be paralyzing. Better to embrace the fact that we will all have hits and misses and just continue to keep going.
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