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Vault Door.

This is the photo that originally caught my attention.

This is the original photo.



















I'm always intrigued by photography. I think my favorite part of photography is how a person can dictate what is included (and also, what is left out). The banner (top image) was the original culprit of my interest - a cross-section view of a vault door in b&w with added focus to accentuate each lever.

I followed my nose and stumbled upon the original photograph (second image) which included a larger portrayal of the vault door. I was surprised to find this, after having been satisfied with the smaller section shown in the first picture I found. This made me wonder: am I better off having seen the whole door? Or was it more satisfying to have seen just a glimpse of it.

This line of thinking applies in all things we do. Sometimes things seem more appealing when ingesting a small glimpse or taste of it. We can appreciate a higher quantity of things when they come in small doses--that is what our culture is thriving off of at this very moment. The flip side to this? Maybe I really was better off having seen the larger picture of the vault door. The detail captured by the photographer's camera of the bottom levers/bolts/knobs/etc. is truly beautiful.

Moral of this story: Don't let the photographer behind the lens dictate what you see. If you stumble across something that truly intrigues you, do your homework and look for the bigger picture.

Failure, success & neither

" The math is magical: you can pile up lots of failures and still keep rolling, but you only need one juicy success to build a career.

The killer is the category called 'neither'. If you spend your days avoiding failure by doing not much worth criticizing, you'll never have a shot at success. Avoiding the thing that's easy to survive keeps you from encountering the very thing you're after.

And yet we market and work and connect and create as if just one failure might be the end of us. "

Seth Godin 2010 (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/)

I read this about five times upon receiving my daily dose of Seth Godin's blog (which you need to follow if you have any interest in marketing/pr/comm/buss/etc.) a few days ago.

Why is it brilliant? It reminded me of a teacher giving a student a prompt:

"Give me insight as to why people shy away from failure and in turn, shy away from success. Oh yeah, and do it in five sentences or less. You have twenty minutes."

Godin deserves an A+ for nailing the hypothetical assignment.