{"id":1639,"date":"2009-12-23T05:37:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T10:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BrandTwist.com\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:14:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:14:39","slug":"quickbite-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/celebrity-branding\/quickbite-10\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickBite"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>&#8220;God, I\u2019m 51 years old and I spent 30 years of my life doing things I didn\u2019t want to do. The things you do to please other people! I said to myself, Well now I\u2019m just going to have a good time. That was the most freeing thing.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>-Alec Baldwin in this month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2009\/12\/fail_alec_baldwin\/\">Wired Magazine <\/a>in an article titled &#8220;Stay in the Game: The\u00a0Fall and Rise of Alec Baldwin&#8221; where he speaks about his failures, his TV comeback, and how he looks forward to failing again.<\/p>\n<p>I am a big fan of Wired and this month&#8217;s issue does not disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a picture of Alec Baldwin on the cover in a fighting pose and a big black box that says &#8220;Fail. Why Losing Big Can Be a Winning Strategy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Mr. Baldwin-Mike Tyson, Meg Whitman, and Bill Clinton talk candidly about some of their biggest failures and most importantly what they&#8217;ve learned from them.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned in my earlier post <a href=\"http:\/\/brandtwist.com\/?p=671\">Fail Harder<\/a>, I&#8217;m also a big fan of failure. Not that I enjoy falling on my face. But I do think true innovation takes risk. And failure is a sure sign that you are taking risks.<\/p>\n<p>What have you learned from failure?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God, I\u2019m 51 years old and I spent 30 years of my life doing things I didn\u2019t want to do. The things you do to please other people! I said to myself, Well now I\u2019m just going to have a good time. That was the most freeing thing.&#8221; -Alec Baldwin in this month&#8217;s Wired Magazine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,107,113],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-celebrity-branding","7":"category-overcoming-obstacles","8":"category-quickbite"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16577,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/16577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}