Analysis Of Huge Lindgren's Article 'Be Wrong As Fast As You Can'

Huge Lindgren writes about his personal experience as a writer in the struggle to find success through failure and self-doubt throughout his article “Be Wrong as Fast as You Can”. Lindgren brings up many of his own experiences that led to his acceptance of his place as a magazine article writer and editor, but more importantly he brings up many startling ideas that are scarily relatable. Ultimately, Hugo Lindgren explains that the only way to succeed in life is to struggle through failure and learn from one’s mistakes.

The article begins with Lindgren detailing many of the ideas he had in his youth. Be it a clever sitcom idea or melodramatic reality show, Lindgren has thought of a twist on it that catered to his personal life experience. However, he goes on

“Even looking back over those one-sentence descriptions of TV ideas in the first paragraph of this essay, I am humbled by how inadequately they convey the vividness they had as I conjured them” (4). Some ideas are not worth pursuing. That is exactly what Lindgren came to understand, but this is not necessarily for nought. Ideas on the whole need dreamt up and given life. Without them society as a whole would crumble and advancements would cease. More important is the understanding that everybody will fail at some point. Lindgren explains this in his memory of John Lasseter’s interview on Charlie Rose. It is mentioned that “Mistakes are an inevitable part of the creative process, so get right down to it and start making them” (4). Take note that even the founder of Pixar, one of today’s most successful animation companies has had his share of bumps in the road. Looking past self-doubt and insecurity, learning to move on from it and take the experience away, good or bad, will ultimately have an overwhelming effect on one’s life. If a person cannot look past their own mistakes they can never move on to improve on their idea or, even worse, give up on their