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135: Mastering the Art of Living, with Aaron McHugh

Become Good Soil

CHAPTER

The Importance of Experimentation and Failure

Powell: For me, experimentation is feels like it comes natural. And maybe that's because I've had so many things in my life unexpectedly go wrong. "I'm good at plans, but I was failing regularly in my ability to bring a plan to life," he says. In the book The Man Who Planted Trees, author Parker Palmer writes about what you can't do and why. Powell: To me, out of that work life play has always been this place in which I can't not.

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