Progress. What a great word to say and what a great phrase to declare, “We have made progress!” Particularly in the middle of a project that may have hit a — pause.
The road to progress is littered with failures, defined as setbacks, disappointments, moments of futility, and sometimes serious crashes. We can relate to this in particular as we experience the expansion of I-10. There are lots of messes, delays, setbacks, and, unfortunately, crashes. In all of these fails, though, there is progress, and when the freeway expansion is complete, the appreciation will be real.
A famous quote from Henry Ford, who was “one of the most renowned entrepreneurs in history,” is “’[f]ailure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently' (Intellectual). And that is really the key, allowing the failure to become the progress. “For Henry Ford, failure did not hinder innovation but served as the impetus to hone his vision for a technology that would ultimately transform the world” (Intellectual).
A comment I hear is, “If it’s not broken, don't fix it." How do we know that the “not broke” way of how we are doing something is the best way forward if we do not look at or try other ways of doing it?
