Why You Should Value Your Mistakes, with High-Wire Artist Philippe Petit | Big Think
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As a high-wire artist, Philippe Petit doesn't have much room for mistakes. Still, he finds that mistakes are our best teachers and advises friends and students to treat them as such.
This is the ninth video in a nine-part series with Philippe Petit available in playlist form here.
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PHILIPPE PETIT:
Philippe Petit has performed on the high wire more than eighty times around the world. He is famous for his 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Petit is also a magician, street juggler, visual artist, builder, lecturer, and writer. He is the author and illustrator of several books, including To Reach the Clouds, the basis of the 2009 Academy Award–winning documentary Man on Wire.
Petit's latest book is titled Creativity: The Perfect Crimes. His World Trade Center act is the subject of the 2015 biographical film The Walk directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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Philippe Petit: If I had a university to direct and in some ways I hope that one day to have my own foundation where I will teach people things there will be a course in mistakes in the sense that I think we discard mistakes, we brush them aside, we in a non creative way mistakes are our best teachers.
When I make a mistake there is two things parallel happening in my head, in my heart and consciously I try to find the why of the situation and very consciously I observe what happened or, you know, recall what happens and find sometime the myriads of details that I didn’t pay attention to. Or sometime it’s as simple as I was not focusing enough, you know. If I cut a piece of wood with a saw and not really .....
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