It happens that something goes wrong what we have carefully planned. And that is often not a big drama, each of us has experienced this before. But all too often, when we realize that we’re failing in one step, we’re giving up on the next steps of our new ideas fairly quickly.
When a baby is born, it knows how to do one thing for sure: lying. But after a few weeks it gets bored lying on its back, and it starts to explore its environment. Soon it turns on its stomach, begins to crawl and sit until the first standing and walking attempts follow. In the end there are nearly 2,000 attempts until the first step succeeds.
If a baby decided that it would just sit or lie down after the first unsuccessful attempts to walk, then we would have a fairly retarded society. Therefore, with innovation we should do it just like babies: try it out, fail, try again, fail again – until it works. For that you also need a certain stamina.