{"id":1742,"date":"2015-09-22T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2016-10-31T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:26:00","slug":"run-run-as-fast-as-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/22\/run-run-as-fast-as-you-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Run, Run, as Fast as You Can"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"runrun-1\"<\/a>I was pondering on some things at the end of a long workday yesterday (as I am wont to do) and I saw some pictures of some Halloween themed gingerbread men.<\/p>\n

It brought my mind back to a story my parents told me about when they were dating. Mom was a teenager when she was dating my father. She was experimenting with cooking (something she still does well into her sixties, I might add) and was making a gingerbread man for my father.<\/p>\n

As she was taking it out of the pan, it broke.<\/p>\n

Oh no. Disaster right? She’s trying to make something nice for her boyfriend and it broke.<\/p>\n

Now my mother is totally a perfectionist. She doesn’t let that get in the way, though. Instead of trying to bake another, more perfect, gingerbread man, she iced the leg, and attached a note to it when she gave it to my father, saying that he broke his leg trying to jump out of the pan and run away.<\/p>\n

That was an important lesson to me later on in life. Sure, sure, doing your best is important. But, an important part of being a person is to make good use<\/strong> of mistakes. I doubt I’d have ever heard of any gingerbread man my mother baked for my father as a teenager if it had turned out perfectly. It was the fact that she took a mistake and made it into an interesting story made it memorable fifty years later.<\/p>\n

Do you have the creativity to turn a mistake into something awesome? If you do, what did you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was pondering on some things at the end of a long workday yesterday (as I am wont to do) and I saw some pictures of some Halloween themed gingerbread men. It brought my mind back to a story my parents told me about when they were dating. Mom was a teenager when she was … <\/p>\n

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