{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Funderstorybard.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fmistakes-are-a-certainty-Bx1nRtcD","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Mistakes Are A Certainty","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/acb2966f-32cd-4cec-bc04-ebb68022dac8/f14dde7a-3bb8-4b94-98b1-86259c230cd8/understory-picture.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"What is up—Understory Bard here, Wade Skalsky. On Creative Peril this week: mistakes are a certainty. I'm about to cut a check on a first-time move in a young pillar of the business—fourth month in, roughly break-even, money that hurts a little—and I already know I won't vet it perfectly. I'll leave cash on the table. Your subconscious can't workshop a deal you never do. (Like Jaws and Aliens: not naming the thing lets your mind conjure something scarier than reality.)\n\nLife isn't a choose-your-own-adventure with one correct path to a Morpheus ending. It's an open universe. You don't know what you don't know until you act. Even Tom Brady whiffs—if \"sexy Tom Brady\" can mess up jiu-jitsu logistics, you're not navigating this perfectly either.\n\nMistakes aren't just inevitable—they're required. They open pathways and become future comfort if you retrain the comfort-machine brain. Take the edge off so you burn less creative capital forcing the start. Nobody's watching the garage bunker; what you learn from the miss, you own forever. Mistakes are an investment. From the garage bunker—talk soon."}