RE to Success of Failure

Interesting document. To reiterate: Fisher's main concern is of the excessive preoccupation with success as something that has been isolated and glorified, rather than a personal byproduct of a given occurrence. He points out the complexity and nuances of this concept that we’ve come to pigeon hole and begs us to question our modern day attitude towards it: People interpret success in so many ways that how can it be one pure thing to strive for at all? Doesn’t our fear of uncertainty impede our ability to obtain success, which in and of itself turns out being unquantifiable? Hasn’t the idea of success become a limitation or finish line for things that should continue to be worked on, re-defined, and evolve over time? Why do we feel the need to hide our failures from others? Fisher points out that satisfaction for something becomes all the more difficult, and perhaps even impossible, when we have such high expectations of a result. It seems that the expectation and obsession for success is related to the occurrence of failure; the harder you struggle to reach the mental construct of perfection (an impossible feat), the further the imaginary object travels and more likely you are to fall, especially when you ignore or resist the possibility of falling. Basically, Fisher wants us to think of falling itself as something that is not as fruitless as we tend to think. I thought that the story about Picasso was particularly interesting. I feel like I understand what was meant when Picasso said “I can make fake Picassos just as well as anyone else” In other words, the artist could tell when he disappointed himself by ripping off an old idea he’s already created. I experience that sometimes.