How much can you learn from a single failure?

Experimental photography is all about learning from failure. The more that you notice about what went right or wrong, the more that you can take into your next effort.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinApril 20, 2020experimentation, photoblog, experimental photography, failureComment

Failure you can eat

This is the first loaf the first loaf of sourdough I made with my new starter. It was looking great up until I tried to dump it out of the wooden proving basket.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinApril 11, 2020baking, failure Comments

The biggest reason I fail

The biggest reason that I fail is by wildly underestimating the time that a project will take to complete.

I suspect I am not alone. My solution to this is to give myself goals that seem too easy and targets that seem almost impossible.

Lucas McLaughlinFebruary 19, 2020failure, goals, targetsComment

What to do if you fail partway through a challenge

I’m almost a month into my 100 day blogging challenge, and I have wondered a few times if I would be able to post every day.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinFebruary 17, 2020failure, challenge, finishingComment

Learn like a kid

For anyone trying to learn something new and challenging, it’s going to take a lot of time. Often as an adult, the more you learn, the less expert you feel. As you are exposed to the work higher and higher level experts in a field, it will doubtless seem that you are never going to make it to that level. And you could be right.

First 100Lucas McLaughlinFebruary 16, 2020Level up, failureComment

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