The Importance Of FAILURE.
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- Опубликовано: 23 окт 2023
- As music makers failure is inevitable, but how can we fail successfully?
Christian Henson shares his perspective on failure as an important part of the creative process as well as a few of his own fluff ups.
How do you deal with failure?
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An incredible strength of character to recoup and carry on, Christian. I'm delighted that you're back and doing what you do best.
Thats kind sir, its easy with the support group I have.
Oh I've missed a good walk'n'talk! Understanding the difference between "That guy is causing me problems" and "Choosing to work with that guy is causing me problems" is an utter revelation. Extreme Ownership is a good philosophy and a great read (Jocko Willink & Leif Babin). Keep em coming Christian...keep em coming!
"Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.” - Steven Wright
Thank You for these years of inspiration. This video was especially important.
With love from Belarus.
Thanks Christian! Very wise thoughts here that I can heavily relate with.
Thank you Christian. I have so missed these videos. Welcome back!
Thank you Christian, a great thought provoking video! 🙏
Thanks Christian, it's good to know we all go through this and really appreciate you setting up a new community
Very important points, Christian. External locus of control is what renders us into a powerless person. Either you own your mistakes or you'll never succeed.
I appreciate videos like this!!! So good. Thanks for posting.
You’re a good man Christian, and your insights are highly valued. We’re the same age, and I too have a string of successes wrapped in failures. For the answer was a career change at 50, and it was a great move, that’s led to more success and more failures. I fail in different ways now though, which shows I learned from the last ones, and ultimately that’s what life’s about. So good to have you back on your channel.
Such a great message. 'Success is wrapped around failures' - I couldn't agree more.
Amazing, thought provoking, and inspired video, full of real world insight, wisdom, and humility. Absolutely nails so many truths about success and failure. SO good to have you back!!!
I’m just getting started as a media composer and I’m sixty-six years old. That’s scary.
Welcome!
You're just a baby. Look after yourself and you have a long time ahead :)
Thanks for your replies. Yes, food as medicine and hiking (love hiking). No keeping score, just giving away for now.
Age is not a barrier just a reminder of the wisdom we have acquired enjoy go for it.
Bit older at 63 but writing and recording for fun in retirement - great advice!@@hh5200
Thank you as always for the support. The studio/bedroom/screaming melodies in a van at yourself feel a lot less lonely with your videos. Good to see you back Christian.
Fantastic to see you back on the screen and with such a great message in a beautifully shot/edited/produced video. Look forward to lots more from you.
I have truly missed your monologues! So glad your back Christian
So glad to just be able to spend some walking with you and listening to what's on your mind - like your style in managing the setbacks and the difficult.
Thank you Mr. Henson. So good to have you back! This is purest oxygen for all of us out here in the trenches.
"An artist must suffer... That's why they call it: 'Painting'!"😈
Insightful as usual Christian, thank you for this video!
Its really nice to hear your train of thought, Christian. You are a very driven person, and very self-aware. We could all use that inspiration.
Christian, you're one of the few people that do good RUclips monologues. Whilst you were 'away' re-thinking the direction, my good friend Jon & I often discussed when you'd be back and in what form and all this seems like a good start. You're also one of the few people that spurred me on to actually create something myself, I've finished 45 whole complete tracks now in my little low budget studio, but YOU influenced that so thank-you for that too! Keep pushing forward and don't be afraid to slide back a bit along the way too.
I'm thankful to have even one friend that keeps me on track with my music and inspires me to keep learning.
You really should know I needed to hear this soooooooo much! I have been away from playing live music for a while and when this opportunity arrived I sense the doubt of which you speak......this clears up those doubts for me. Thanks a lot Christian 😄
You've definitely come out of the furnace BUT instead of fire.... you've hit a fruition phase of life these last 9 or so months Christian, and I commend you for waxing poetic again about composer life challenges. I can't wait to get involved in all things Crow Hill. I've said it before (And a thousand others have said it too) it's good to have you back mate! :-)
So kind Ty the response has been one of life's great surprises.
I wrote this down about six months ago. And it feels time to share it with you (and thank you Christian H for your video):- "It is not: The World is all wrong and I have to make it right.
The World: Is the way it is, and I should adapt to take advantage of it - grateful for what that teaches me.
Be like Water - Flow and Grow."
Wonderful thoughts. As a freelance music producer for singer-songwriters (with a lot of composing intertwined), I get all of the points , especially the ones about the struggle for financial security, but ultimately we have to keep making bold steps towards the goal of creating, because that is what we were created to do in some sense and if it brings joy to us and others then who’s to stop us. I’d love some sort of meet-up/zoom/ with other likeminded people here to build a family and support structure😊
People follow you for your ability to connect with your audience in a humble and personal way. The intimacy of this video goes way beyond discussing the next product or event... and for that reason we tune in and support you. Happy to have you back Christian!
Don't give the people that mean ill towards you the opportunity to hold anything over you. They'll keep coming back as long as there's a reception to their manipulation and deceit. We should never apologize for something we didn't do. It leaves the door open to exploitation by those that have something to gain.
Brilliant. Much success! You have been missed!!!
Thanks Christian.Success is nice but rarely teaches anything. Failure is uncomfortable but a valuable teacher.
Wow! This was such a great message at a time I needed to hear it. Thanks
This is one of your best episodes, Christian. It's honest, raw, real and models to others that when we mess up (and we will) there's a path forward. It doesn't define you forever. Wonderful advice and I'm so excited for what is coming for you next. Thank you for sharing.
I love these types of videos by composers that's not necessarily about composing or music at all, but about the other important stuff I didn't know I needed. Missed these vlogs! Thank you, Christian and the Crow Hill team, please keep going! :)
Keep your heart on your sleeve, Christian ❤. Your honest and candid discourse is deeply refreshing, as ever. The clearly renewed energy is inspiring!!
Its good to have you back!
Great video. Nothing else to say, just great video. Thanks Chris.
Being well into my seventh decade I can safely say it’s the failures that you learn from that will lead you to success
Thanks for putting yourself back in the firing line again Christian, it’s nice to share the ups and downs of this life
It was a great pleasure to see you back with Crown Hill. Your wisdom and talent is a gift to us all.
Excited to see whats coming.
So nice to see you back Christian and in fine form! :)
Absolutely wonderful to have you 'back'. I was just listening to 300 Strangers this morning and hadn't realised your channel had ported to this one but very glad of the new content. What you say is true of any enterprise (music is my hobby but I work as a writer/artist for a living) and whilst I could be considered reasonably successful in my field by any reasonable metric, I've long come to realise that how I respond to 'failure' (and I do hate that word because failure and success is just not binary at all) is far more instructive asa means of growth than and perception I occasionally have about my successes. Anyhoo, being a professional creative is often a solitary place so I appreciate the company.
Glad to see your back.
We can all appreciate and learn from the experience of others. The way showers…those that have in their own way blazed a trail that leaves clues.
I thank you for your candor and the vulnerability that you clearly present.
I look forward to hearing and seeing more from you as this endeavor evolves.
I continue to be amazed at the polarization of the collective and the apparent eagerness to critique if not indeed attempt to undermine what is the free expression of another. Projection perhaps.
No one is suggesting that anyone must completely align with the message.
Yes, loving what we do ought to be the prime motivation and it’s own reward.
Onward 🙏🏻🎶
I learned a lot from you. Thank you for the education
We missed you Christian. Glad that you're back!
Excellent commentary and advice, welcome back
The more I hear about this venture the more I like it. The decades do indeed roll by at an increasingly alarming rate and I am in my seventh. Gawd. I'm not a music professional but many lessons I've learned are life-related and as such are applicable in any sphere, and if I can help in any way I'd be privileged to do so and share my experiences and perceptions. Great video, superbly presented, and I can see why they call it Crow Hill! The sods were constantly photobombing in the section filmed on it 🤣
They really do love the camera!
Christian, your video on embracing failure struck a chord with me and friends in South Africa. Thank you for openly sharing your experiences and emphasizing the importance of learning from setbacks. Your insights are invaluable and inspire many, including myself. Looking forward to more of your wisdom. Cheers! You have many people's full support and all the best for your new endeavour.🤟
Wise wordt is what we all need
Good to have you back...
I missed Christian's monologues, glad to see him back making those videos!
Over the past couple of years, I have grown quite terrified of becoming "successful" (whatever that might mean...), as much terrified as I am of failing. And yet, despite of all the failures I keep carrying on, failing again and continuing to walk on this road that leads to somewhere (success? Who knows...). I made a decision when I started going down this road: I will never stop walking it
Great to see the rambling and informative VLog is back and stronger than ever. Salient points as ever sir!
Thanks.
Excellent thoughts!!!!
so good! thank you :)
Nice talk Christian, really made me have a look into myself, my life and how I affect people around me?
I just want to try everything I can to bring happiness to all the people that I have known, I know now and all the people I may meet in the future and if I can do that with music, I will be content. Much peace and love Gary
Here we go!!
Thank you for this video. I was just reconsidering every decision like what to study ,should I abandon music for good and so on. Thank you for saying failure is fine as long as we are aware of how to make use of it.
I have really missed your videos. When you "disappeared" I did some research and then found some articles about you. I didn't pursue them. I don't judge. I really hope you have come out of the darkness strongly. This video would suggest you have. I look forward to more of the same and some music related stuff as well. You have said some really empowering things here and I hope it is a great encouragement to many. I appreciate your generosity of taking the time to talk and also to create something new. Its exciting!
Signed up for awesome sounds and now we're just getting pure gems of wisdom!!!!
This is a remarkably classy move, given the circumstances. Good on you, CH.
So kind thanks mate.
09:16 Helping others as a cure. Thanks for the reminder!
Brilliant 👏
Thank You
Bravo Christian!
We certainly should NOT deny ourselves the joy of making music ❤
After recently experiencing one of my personal recent biggest failure, failing out of my university major. This video came at a right time to explain. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and god bless.
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That's pretty insightful and of course you got it right. WE all fail. Some quit, other dust off and get back on the horse like you. Takes a lot of brass to do that but you do it constantly. That's why you will be a always be a success. Oh, and the fact that you are humble, insightful, kind, thoughtful and intelligent will attract the best of us and we will be happy to buy your products and listen to your failures, successes and your plans for the future. I like this new reinvented You!
Well spoken. 👍
Nailed it 👍
120k subscribers. I thought this was new channel! Great video and advice.
Failure over and over again has refined me. My successes have been spotty, but when they happen, I keep my hat and shoes on, so to speak.
This was beautiful. And oddly enough, I've been grappling with some of this recently.
Years ago, i did a talk on the need for achievement, using maslow's hierarchy and tailoring it to my own concepts. Little did i know how much I'd be revising and renewing my own drivers and needs (and wants) to beat the fears and failiures that crop up due to the consistent undulations of a creative path.
Thank you making a video on a necessary, yet understandably delicate topic.
Thanks so much
Fantastic video.
Interesting topic for sure! I definitely agree with your sentiments. My career was really badly hit by covid, and I’ve never recovered from it tbh. I dont know how I feel about the wider industry ATM, or where its headed…But having a similar attitude has opened up other areas of my life back up instead, and made me a happier person overall. I think as musicians we all tend to spend a lot of our lives struggling against the current for every inch forwards; wether creatively or professionally, but I’m starting to think that just going with the flow of life, appreciating all the little moments along the way and keeping your head out for opportunities down stream is a much more appealing approach. Just being ok with however life unfolds or something.
Spot on
Well said! You should learn more about failure than success. I have and it has helped me the next time I tried.
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Your coinage of “Wildering Wonderberries” alone makes this video worthwhile. I’ve always said the key to success is repeated failure; it’s great to know it’s been said before and will keep being repeated
Maybe Wildering Wonderberries should be the band name for "Filet O' Funk".
I firmly believe adversity does not make the man, it reveals him. Well done Christian on moving forward. I look forward to seeing your future successes.
"I hope this monologue been all right"... well, from France, it's been great. Not great, it's been perfect.
There is nowhere else on RUclips we can find a greater content. So gratfull for that, Thanks Christian.
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Man, I've missed these! :)
Welcome back mate
Excellent video and extremely encouraging to a young, aspiring media composer as they embark on their first few projects and backlog of many many rejections.
hope all goes well!
Best of luck Ellis. Remember there’s a community of composers to support you on your journey!
@@StephenTallamyMusicthankyou so much!
@@JamesButcherthankyou!
My favourite moment was, as you sat on a hill, a crow flew by, unbeknownst to you. That was a very beautiful portent. 🙂
The wise man giving us pure wisdom
Born of a fuck ton of failures.
@@TheCrowHillCo as it should be.
Great points. I would add...stop comparing myself to anyone, including past or future versions of myself.
I wouldn't call it a failure but I've just been made redundant today and I'm trying to take solace in this similar belief that growth, learning and success lives in these areas of discomfort and vulnerability! Wish me luck!
I'm so deep in a failed hole at the moment that to see down I have to look up.
More panic enduring edits than the opening of falling down
Great advice as always. Also, you absolutely have to start a band called the Wildering Wonderberries.
I have embraced my failure. I’m thankful I didn’t succeed at my dream 30+ years ago. At the time, it was hard to get those rejection letters, but in retrospect, I am so happy I didn’t get into the actual business. I see what has happened to so many artists having breakdowns. I’m bipolar, so it would have been horrible for me to battle that while on tour.
I turned 50 last month. I write songs every day, but it’s for my sanity - not for money.
So my moment of realisation came in March this year, when I finally admitted I was no longer ok, and wasn’t sure I could trust myself to fix myself. All the signs had been there to one degree or another for some time, and people had reached out to check how I was but I just kept the pretence up.
I won’t bore you with the details but a lot, too much in fact, of what you said in this was spot on.
I have been shouting at the world for so long that I had forgotten to first consider how I was affecting the world around me and me in this world.
It’s a process and o am nowhere near out the other side, but every day that fog you speak of clears a little more.
I have no idea what I will do from here, or whether anything will really change for the better. But for now at least I’ve stopped shouting.
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful perspective ❤️
@@TheCrowHillCo❤
I’ve missed these videos so much. I love it when you use the F word, although this time my two year old heard and said it right back 😂
I'm not a huge commenter on videos, but just had to say that this video came at the right time for me Christian. Thanks for that!
Its these sorts of videos where you just talk to the camera that made me subscribe and follow the other projects you're involved in, keep it up! :)
Will do, I love a waffle!
I once had an interesting interaction about winning, just after we did a small workshop on the topic. At the end, the person who lead the exercise told that her goal was for the end state to be beneficial for each participant (hence why she did not call us contenders). So when I told her that I'm never loosing she came storming furious at me where I got the nerf for such an attitude.
Seeing her lightbulb go on when I explained to her that we either win or we learn something new but I never loose. You only truly know the rules of the game if you know how to let someone else win without them noticing that you do.
Another aspect of failure is criticism. But I think you have to see criticism as someone telling you how to be better at what you do. See it as free help and guidance.
Last sunday evening was a little failure for the wife & I . We performed a couple of songs live at an open mic night. I'm quite disappointed with the outcome.
Good video. I was a salaried composer for an animation studio up until december last year but was fired after a few months (your anecdote about being fired was pretty relatable in this case!), although I did work for them as a freelancer for about a year before. I have to admit though I'm pretty traumatised from the whole experience, because after doing music for 20 or so years and trying and failing at all sorts of stuff, it really felt like I finally had "made it", and it was "destiny" and everything would go from strength to strength from there, blah blah blah. I do also honestly feel like I wasn't so much to blame for this situation either, although I know you say for us to "own it".. still I'm sure there were a couple of ways I could of handled it all differently.
It's very difficult to pull myself up back again, which is kind of sad despite the level of skill I attained in writing all sorts of genres, including orchestral. My saving grace is that I do video production and enjoy it too (which I have to double down on the for the time being), but it's always difficult when you're musical at heart. It's very difficult at this point to convince myself that I can have another run at this despite having tons of scored animations in my private portfolio from this studio. I was approached out of the blue initially when given the opportunity to work with them, so it makes it harder thinking I have to reach out to tons of companies only just to get ignored now. It's brutal out here, but maybe someone else in the comments can relate!
I feel for you. Making it is only when you make it for later. Every time I thought I had "made it" proved to be a dead end. A job I nearly turned down ten years ago because I "didn't really get it" is now into its 9th season. I only realised it was the best thing I'd ever done about 4 seasons in!
@@ChristianHensonComposer some words of wisdom right there! yeah maybe i just need to recharge my batteries.. i have a separate youtube channel which does relaxation music which is actually doing quite well, maybe that's the way forward haha.. cheers to your success anyway and thanks or responding :)
YEs i can relate. Same happened with me. When you think you made it, it might still be again something transitory... People are very unstable these days and think everyone can be substituted. DOnts trust nothing unless it proves to you something .. With your portfolio you can certainly get many freelance and teaching gigs. Don´t give up!
Stoic
the boy who made no mistakes did nothing as my grandfather used to say - great video