Eggness Examined
From The Free Dictionary
egg on (one’s) face Informal
Embarrassment; humiliation: If you do that, you’ll end up with egg on your face.
lay an egg Informal
To fail, especially in a public performance.
put/have all (one’s) eggs in one basket Informal
To risk everything on a single venture.
Why is the egg so often associated with failure, or the threat of it? To lay an egg is at the very least a creative act, and at best a source of new life. There is certainly a parallel here with writing: both the creative impulse that produces it and the danger of disaster if the effort fails. Eggs are fragile, as is the psyche, and a broken egg is, after all, a major mess. But, oh, when it works it is glorious.
More on eggs next time. Now, breakfast.
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Love the thoughts on ‘eggness’! Thought provoking.
Good luck with this site.
The fastest secret weapon to success is usually to look as though you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing because of your own.
There aren’t any techniques to success. It does not take consequence of preparation, work, and gaining knowledge from failure.
Thanks, Lauren. If you mean that success is a result of preparation, work and knowledge gained from failure, I agree!
Thanks, Lauren. If you mean that success is a result of preparation, work and knowledge gained from failure, I agree!