Just do it!

Not to steal what was, at least once, a slogan from Nike, but a post I just read at Lifehacker just made me think of it. To summarize, the post says that we are often so afraid of failure that we just don't even TRY.

Trying to make ice cream
using snow at 20 below.
Why not?  - Photo by me

The post was interesting to me in that I'm currently in this Emerging Technologies class, learning about blogs, wikis and whatnot, and Robin is pushing us to do exactly that. We are being urged to TRY things, to figure them out, to put ourselves out there. To do so is to learn. It is also to invite failure, but so often we forget that failure is also a learning experience and can lead us to bigger and better things. (Anyone seen Meet the Robinsons?)

The post also struck me because of some of the ideas it presented in the first paragraph. "You've got a web site idea, a mobile app concept, or just a loose video concept." Do I detect some mildly prosumer language here?