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“We Do Not Learn So Much By Our Successes As We Learn By Failures–Our Own and Others’.”

“We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures—our own and others’. Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.” – Frank Lloyd Wright * Want to launch a group for people doing happiness projects together? Email me at gretchenrubin1 at gmail dot com. Just write “starter kit” in the subject line.


Frank Lloyd Wright’s 10-Point Manifesto for His Apprentices.

Every Wednesday is Tip Day — or List Day. This Wednesday: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Manifesto for His Apprentices. I love personal manifestos — for instance, on the home pages of their blogs, Bob Sutton includes his 17 Things I Believe about work and Madame X lists My Rules about money. I recently read Frank Lloyd Wright’s Autobiography — a very …


“To Know What to Leave Out and What to Put in…Is To Have Been Educated in Knowledge of Simplicity.”

“To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity — toward ultimate freedom of expression.” – Frank Lloyd Wright * Great material on Jonathan Fields’s blog — “conversations at the crossroads of work, play, entrepreneurship and life.” * Follow me on Twitter, …