Barry Diller

I learn from bouncing off the walls of a bad direction or a mistake or whatever and course correcting and make less mistakes.

Look, there are some people for sure, relatively few, but there are certainly people who don't need to bother with that because they are brilliant in ways I'm not.

and they are able to seemingly not have any process.

That's where genius lies.

For those people that are, fantastic, my observation is they have other problems.

But for those of us who are not, particularly in something that hasn't happened before, now, you know, things that are very known, you can find guideposts.

But in the world that I am involved in, and the world that I'm most happy to be involved in, is where something isn't known and you are

making progress as you go, building a company step by step, an idea from whatever, wherever it comes from to whatever it's going to be.

The only way to proceed is in that world of unknown, of building something, is I can do it only by

bouncing off the wall, going a step forward, pushing back, being pushed back a half a step, and eventually making less mistakes and busting through.

I don't know who said it or whatever, but it rang for me very true.

Somebody said something

someone else said well that's stupid and the person said that's what I want stupid the more I hear stupid the more I will hear ideas and so if you're in a process with other people and any idea is

Any idea, dumb, stupid, wrong, any one of those words you want to attach to it is a step to the next idea, which isn't.

That was 30 years later.

I was 49.

I'd been a very good corporatist.

I had run two movie companies.

and incredibly successful in the world that I was in.

And yet I yearned for something that was my own.