Creativity & Courage

CREATIVITY IS A MUSCLE BUT SO IS COURAGE

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
— Theodore Roosevelt

In the last workshop we talked about how creativity is like a muscle, the more you exercise it the stronger it gets. Turns out courage functions the same way. You gain your courage muscle by couraging. This means for many of us that it begins by facing our fears.

 


Examples:

Blind Contour

 
 

MIND MAP

 
 

FEAR POSTURES


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