Allow Yourself to Fail to Help Your Creativity Grow

I’m rerunning an old favorite today:

In the fascinating video below, Derek Sivers shows how experimentation and failure enhance learning and creativity. This is especially good viewing for those of us who are recovering perfectionists!

If you don’t have time to watch the entire 15-minute video, I recommend skipping ahead to just after the nine-minute mark, where you can watch the creation of a Picasso painting step by step — and see how Picasso makes mistakes and keeps changing the painting until he likes the final result.

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Allow Yourself to Fail to Help Your Creativity Grow

In the fascinating video below, Derek Sivers shows how experimentation and failure enhance learning and creativity. This is especially good viewing for those of us who are recovering perfectionists!

If you don’t have time to watch the entire 15-minute video, I recommend skipping ahead to just after the nine-minute mark, where you can watch the creation of a Picasso painting step by step — and see how Picasso makes mistakes and keeps changing the painting until he likes the final result.

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Herd your Inner Critics into a soundproof room,
Send your Procrastination Monster whimpering back to his cave,
And defuse all your creative blocks.

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