For those of us afraid of making mistakes, avoiding the unknown and side stepping risk can certainly seem appealing. Yet, overcoming the fear of failure and taking chances can prove extremely beneficial. For Slaughter Development’s founder, achieving productivity comes from tackling challenges head on—even if it means writing a blog post in under five minutes. 

In an interview for Blog Indiana 2010, Robby Slaughter had an opportunity to highlight some of his recent success. During the discussion, Nat Finn touched upon Slaughter’s new book, Failure: The Secret To Success, and his BIN2010 session, “Producing Content Without Agony.” A snippet of the interview is below. You can view the entire piece at the Blog Indiana website.

1 – #BIN2010 might be dubbed, “The Year of the Writer.” Congratulations on publishing your book, “Failure: The Secret to Success.” Besides the implied reasons found in the title, what specifically inspired you to write the book?

Thanks! Fear of failure is the most gripping and serious problem we face at work and in life. Making mistakes is essential to learning, yet we seem to be afraid of doing anything wrong. I wrote the book to establish a conversation around what enables us to succeed in our professional and personal world. I hope that it helps others feel inspired to embrace the role of failure.

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5 – During a session of BIN2009 you claimed you wrote a post in 8 minutes [correct me if that's wrong]. Have you since broken that record?

It was nine minutes and forty seconds. I think I’ve done it much less time, but I don’t usually take out a stopwatch while blogging. The promise for Saturday afternoon is to write one in under five minutes. Come and see if it can be done!

Turns out, Slaughter managed to create a detailed, comprehensive blog only in four minutes and ten seconds. And though he certainly broke his blogging record, he admits doing so wasn’t his main goal. Instead, it was to simply inspire others to adopt similar strategies when it comes to content development and workflow improvement. With all hopes, the session participants can freely attest to his intentions and his results!

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