Seth Godin posted this, and while he posted in for business folks it definitely applies to artists as well…
Too many MBAs are sent into the world with bravado and enthusiasm and confidence.
The problem is that they also lack guts.
Guts is the willingness to lose. To be proven wrong, or to fail.
No one taught them guts in school. So much money at stake, so much focus on the numbers and on moving up the ladder, it never occurs to anyone to talk about the value of failure, of smart risk, of taking a leap when there are no guarantees.
It’s easy to be confident when you have everything aligned, when the moment is perfect. It’s also not particularly useful.
For all of those words you shared, which I thank you for… I was especially prodded by the image at the bottom, “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” Wow…
Yes that one really hit me too. I combined the two things deliberately as the image is a concept Seth Godin teaches quite frequently. Artists need to fail. We can’t help it. We create things that have not existed before. It’s like the old saying, you have to break some eggs to make an omelet. Fear of failure will cripple us creatively. Thanks, you just gave me today’s blog post.