Advice

Fandom: Fail Early and Fail Often

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Failure is one of your surest paths to success in your career.

This may sound contradictory as success sounds like the path to success, but the painful if obvious truth is a lot of times we have to fail to get things right.  We have to toss the old manuscript and rewrite, we have to learn a business idea is bad the hard we, we have to find out that our art skills aren't quite what we thought.  If you want to succeed at your career, often times you have to try things and fail to learn what you're doing wrong (and doing right).

Fandom is an AWESOME place to fail.

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Fear of change is one of the things that paralyze us and keep us from creating the lives we want.  I'm pretty sure right now you can think of several fears that paralyze you – even the fear of amitting you're afraid.  If we're honest with ourselves we can identify a lot of fears that keep us from moving forward.

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So get out and contact them!

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I meet a lot of interesting people on the job, in my career, at conventions, and of course, reading books.  Some of them are famous, known professionals, and otherwise largely cooler than I am – or at least richer and more famous.  But usually cooler.

Now when you meet these people, you may want to ask them for advice or information.  However you feel scared, concerned, and don't want to mess it up.

Scared aside, meeting and learning from people who have been successful is one of the major ways to learn to be a success.  So if you don't swallow your fear and contact them, you will loose out.

In fact I usually find such people are often glad to help out if approached properly – I've corresponded with two major authors of employment books, several website publishers, and a life coach with a decade plus career in the last few months.  I've learned a lot from them, and they were to a person helpful and glad to give me advice.

There are two major parts of contacting people:

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