{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"A humble opinion on deriving motivation from failure","publication_date":"March 11, 2019","summary":"It irks novelist and professor Elizabeth McCracken when people say a success has \"humbled\" them. She argues it's in fact failure that produces a humbling effect -- but also a highly motivating one. McCracken offers her humble opinion on why the best work doesn't derive from calm equilibrium, but rather from a \"well-nourished, very private sense of revenge.\" ","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2019\/03\/IMHO-1024x576.jpg","thumbnail_height":576,"thumbnail_width":1024}