How to Make Mistakes On Purpose

Bring Chaos to Your Order

De: Laurie Rosenwald

Narrado por: Laurie Rosenwald

Based on Laurie Rosenwald's popular workshop, How to Make Mistakes On Purpose reveals an intuitive, entertaining way to come up with truly original ideas.
Three generations of humans have now been molded into results-oriented workers who cannot mess up, and therefore may never innovate either. Shared software, skills, and experiences equal no surprises. Surrounded by the unwavering, reliable results made possible by a machine, we all marinate in this ubiquitous cybersauce. Behold! Thousands of shiny new apps, sites, products, and services that look, feel, and are essentially the same. Because computers don’t make mistakes.

Chance is the natural foil to the digital. We combine both for originality. This makes for the kind of exciting, hopeful future we want. We embrace technology but need to slap it around a bit to get someplace new.

Human error sparks connections. In a relaxed situation where one’s hypercritical demons are AWOL, the snap, crackle, pop of brainstorms happen all around us.

A fresh, colorful guide to discovery, with clearly marked directions and witty prompts, this is a book about living a productive, individualistic life. Whatever your job, it gives you a way to zig while everyone around you can only zag. It will also make you laugh along the way.

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Praise for Laurie Rosenwald:

"Laurie's voice is fresh sounding, funny, and completely her own."—David Sedaris

"Playing with the Studio 360 staff for an afternoon under Rosenwald's supervision was like eating a certain candy bar, indescribably delicious. And unlike eating a candy bar, it was sublimely useful."—Kurt Andersen, host of Peabody Award-winning public radio show, Studio 360

"Laurie has the most native talent of anyone I've ever met. Laurie constantly reinvents herself, whereas most people never get invented to begin with. She is a jewel."
—Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X and Girlfriend in a Coma and visual artist

One of the best audio books I've heard

I listen to a ton of audio books, and have to read/hear a stack of books for a project I'm working on. I completely put my work aside and consumed HOW TO MAKE MISTAKES in a single session! Even though my conscience says I should be attending to the books I was recently assigned... I said "sc--w it, I'm having too much fun." The reader's voice is perfect for this material. She is also the author. Very few authors have the ability to read their work aloud, and most should not even try. Rosenwald is the exception.

Her philosophy does confirm some of my own mistakes (decisions? happy accidents?) so maybe I'm biased. I mean, we all like to be reminded that we were right, even when we were wrong. But it's more than that. She got me thinking about new ways to approach current situations. She's not a high minded new age type, she's better and weirder than that. She shows you how stuff works, introduces you to important historical figures (we can ALWAYS learn from those) and leaves me with an appetite for more. There are surprises and shifts to keep you on your toes. I cackled out loud more than once.

This is not a dutiful read. It's the selfish, enjoyable experience we all need at this moment. I'm referring to the audio in particular.