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“In improvisation, there are no mistakes”- Miles Davis

In music and in life, like the jazz phenomenon Miles Davis said when you create an environment full of new and innovative ideas there are no mistakes. Mistakes happen when you don’t try hard enough or just don’t try at all. Humans have learned from mistakes through the history of mankind and we are not done evolving. I was part of a competition in the middle of the semester that consisted of making a moving object that sustained a human being for racing, it sounded easy until we found out that we could only use cardboard and tape. Our idea was made by a storm of different engineering facts that we know. We made a boat-alike figure with a big and thick cardboard stick so one of the members could pull de car. We lost the race because we didn’t contemplate the texture of the floor that we raced on, but let me tell you that if we had to race on the carpet that we designed the car we would’ve won. Were am going with this is that all the ideas were improvised but with a series of well-known facts that we learned through are engineering courses like math for engineers and physics. Improvisation is not just random ideas that anyone can come up with, it is style and they are made by how creative and wise the person is. All the great jazz improvised music and the creative foundation of what is Apple is not created by an empty mind, the people that make it have studied the subject many years. I learned that through the cardboard race and like I mention before we did fail but we learned a lot about having little to almost non-existing resources. “Life is a lot like jazz, its best when you improvise.” George Gershwin.

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“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison.

Throughout my last years of experience of my young life, I’ve realized that I’ve been getting used to failure more than ever, I consider myself a perfectionist but not a successful one. I’ve just learned that you get used to failure, that’s good, though it shouldn’t become a habit. You try and you fail, that’s the way innovation works and how you manage to structure your creative ideas. Not too long ago, I had the opportunity to participate in a social experiment that consisted only in failing in MANY ways. I’m the introvert that acts like an outgoing type of person, so I was terrified to fail in front of strangers because I happened to get affected by how people think of me. In the end of the experiment I got used to the looks and the reactions of people so I started to not give a fudge. My next task to beat after having this new idea, is to focus on my broken dream of becoming a street musician, even though I’ve failed many times trying to escape from my home and go to Europe may be I will get it next time because if I don’t keep trying it will not come true. Even the greatest and richest people in the world embrace failure throughout their working life, Steve Jobs faced failure all of his first years of trying to become an innovator he even lost his own company.

From my experience of this last years since I started university, you have to try many times in other to get what you want and this doesn’t only apply to school and projects only, it also applies in life itself like love, lust, friendship, hobbies, etc. Failure for an introvert is like roommate that wants you to move out, like a childhood fear that makes your life impossible, like a bully that makes you feel uncomfortable, and is the lost love that makes you give up your ambitions and stay in your room complaining why it didn’t work out. That’s all I have to say about that. And like my homies from twenty one pilots say in their song “migraine”, sometimes to stay alive you gotta kill your mind.