How to Make Mistakes On Purpose, Laurie Rosenwald
How to Make Mistakes On Purpose, Laurie Rosenwald
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How to Make Mistakes On Purpose
Bring Chaos to Your Order

Author: Laurie Rosenwald

Narrator: Laurie Rosenwald

Unabridged: 2 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Balance

Published: 11/23/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Based on Laurie Rosenwald's popular workshop, How to Make Mistakes On Purpose reveals an intuitive, entertaining way to come up with truly original ideas.
 Three generations of humans have now been molded into results-oriented workers who cannot mess up, and therefore may never innovate either. Shared software, skills, and experiences equal no surprises. Surrounded by the unwavering, reliable results made possible by a machine, we all marinate in this ubiquitous cybersauce. Behold! Thousands of shiny new apps, sites, products, and services that look, feel, and are essentially the same. Because computers don’t make mistakes.

Chance is the natural foil to the digital. We combine both for originality. This makes for the kind of exciting, hopeful future we want. We embrace technology but need to slap it around a bit to get someplace new.

Human error sparks connections. In a relaxed situation where one’s hypercritical demons are AWOL, the snap, crackle, pop of brainstorms happen all around us.

A fresh, colorful guide to discovery, with clearly marked directions and witty prompts, this is a book about living a productive, individualistic life. Whatever your job, it gives you a way to zig while everyone around you can only zag. It will also make you laugh along the way.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sidney on May 01, 2023

Quirky and fun, this book makes you think thru a wacky lens. I think the workshops would be a fabulous time. Think outside the box! Do the opposite!......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie (abookandadog) on November 29, 2021

This book encourages you to look beyond the obvious, try lots of things, find solutions in your unexpected places, and ride the wave when it comes along. In art and creation specifically, but also in life. One chapter was filled with stories of how some inventors *accidentally* discovered their grea......more

Goodreads review by Nick on May 30, 2022

Well, it looks like this is my second or third 3-star review in a month or so. . .maybe I'm becoming an old curmudgeon in my ripe age of 32. I think the perspective in this book - that the striving for perfection and unbreakable routine can prevent the unique insights that lead to surprises and succe......more

Goodreads review by Jesse on May 06, 2024

I love the premise of this book with my whole heart but there wasn’t a lot of actionable stuff inside. Sure, there are a bunch of Maybe Try’s that you can work through but I think I may have actually liked some homework. Altogether, though, I think this is a great idea for people to hear and I think......more


Quotes

Praise for Laurie Rosenwald:

"Laurie's voice is fresh sounding, funny, and completely her own."—David Sedaris

"Playing with the Studio 360 staff for an afternoon under Rosenwald's supervision was like eating a certain candy bar, indescribably delicious. And unlike eating a candy bar, it was sublimely useful."—Kurt Andersen, host of Peabody Award-winning public radio show, Studio 360

"Laurie has the most native talent of anyone I've ever met. Laurie constantly reinvents herself, whereas most people never get invented to begin with. She is a jewel."
Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X and Girlfriend in a Coma and visual artist