The Laughing Clown

Perfection precludes participation.

The Laughing Clown, often acting as the Happy Failure, makes no claim to high competence. Instead, his antics and bumbling attempts provoke others into rescuing him from his own tragedy. Somehow, however, he always identifies the right problems to solve. People are so busy proving him wrong, they don’t realize they’re doing valuable work.

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