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THERE IS NOTHING worse than the feeling you get when you don’t succeed: that heart-sinking thud as you realise that you’ve tried, and failed.
But all is not lost, as this photo from the CEO of Brown Bag Films, the hugely successful Irish animation company, shows.
These two letters that Cathal Gaffney received – one telling him he had failed an animation course, the other that his short film had an Oscar nomination – show that failure can be just one step on the way to success:
Pic: BrownBagFilms
He put the photo online during one of Brown Bag’s regular #AMA (ask me anything) sessions, which is part of its Brown Bag LABS feature, when asked what qualifications are needed to get a job with the company.
Many years on from Gaffney’s college failure, the studio (which he co-founded with Darragh O’Connell) is the force behind shows like Octonauts and Doc McStuffins, and has been Oscar nominated for Give Up Yer Aul Sins and Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty.
To make you feel even better about failure, Brian Acton, who set up WhatsApp, was rejected by both Twitter and Facebook… and then went on to sell his company to the latter for $16 billion.
An oft-quoted Samuel Beckett line comes to mind: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No Matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better”.
And if you get an Oscar nomination or a $16bn business deal out of it? How bad.
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My dishwasher is ok, needs an odd roar at her now and again but I dont think she would set fire to anything :-)
Keep roaring at her, and she might ;-)
Yeah, probably you David.
Now now Brendan I hope you arent having mental images of me in one of them aprons that looks like in a semi naked woman :-D
Well I wasn’t….
It can cook the dinner and wash the plates at the same time.. Nice one
Nice, something that has water running through it can catch fire
When it’s drying the dishes there’s no water running through it.
Yeah I do know that. Unfortunately my dishwasher has forgotten how to do that little task
My dishwasher likes to give out to me for not putting my socks in the wash basket and also likes watching soaps when there is champions league football on.
No fear of my Dishwasher going on fire !!
Marshmallow.
no, there’s a chance she might overheat though! :)
She hasnt overheated since the wedding night Martina…
well Marshmallow! your doing something wrong then! you might need to fiddle around with some of the dials and make sure your pressing the start button correctly!! ;)
HOTPOINT …..what a name !
Cheers for concern but my dishwasher is just fine! it has a tap, a sink and I don’t overheat too much. :)
I had a Hotpoint DWF30 dishwasher a few years ago that went on fire. Thankfully I was there at the time. I noticed the flames inside the panel first, but in the short time it took to pull it out the flames had melted the top away. Guarantee you I wasn’t the only person with this particular model that went on fire. Last resort for these companies is a product recall.
The DWF30 has been identified in UK forums as also having this problem – same dodgy printed circuit board fro Bosch.
This was highlighted on the consumer show two weeks ago!
Showed the results of dishwasher fire in a woman’s kitchen, catastrophic!
That was BOSCH not hotpoint.
BOSCH made dishwashers for Indesit, Hotpoint etc. Also it seems (don’t know for sure) that Hotpoint may have made machines in their own factory in UK but likely used components and the printed circuit board under suspicion from BOSCH.
I didn’t specify manufacturer, the results of a fire from any dishwasher would be the same!
Not a nice thing to come home too, if your house has been ruined by an electrical appliance catching fire!
This information has been given out because of the programme, until it was highlighted the manufactures were not going to issue either a warning notice in the country!
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