After Scot picked us up from LAX, he took Manda and me with him to Loyola Marymount University in LA, where he was speaking at a Mosaic-related collegiate gathering called Night Life. LMU has been rated one of the 10 most beautiful campuses in the US, and it’s not hard to see why:
Just a small taste, folks.
Scot did a great job. They interviewed him about his recent venture into the world of stand-up comedy at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood (the same stage from which Michael Richards got ejected for his racist tirade). He talked about how long he’s wanted to do stand-up, and what it took for him to work up the courage finally to do it.
They opened the floor up for questions, and several students asked him to delve deeper into various aspects of his interview. I was particularly intrigued by one point he made: that to achieve your dreams often means confronting the reality of failure. I asked him, “If that’s a given, how does one fail well?” We didn’t get to talk much about it, and we haven’t been able to return to it yet. But it’s a conversation I want to take up again in the near future.
Any ideas until then? What does it mean to fail? And how do we fail well?
