Failure in Creativity
Project Failure
As repeatedly emphasized, failure is a way station on the journey to creative success.
Nevertheless, you must recognize that failure in a creative project, i.e. definite unequivocal failure in society's eyes and your own, occurs to us all, and perhaps more often to those who are most creative. Any project may fail or not deliver as socially expected, but that does not mean your creativity failed.
The may be conceived in a moment, but its creative delivery takes time. A lot can happen. The creative state, with its focus and alertness, helps warn you of dangers and leads you to possibilities. However, external factors impossible to predict or, if predictable, impossible to avoid, can always defeat you. To determine whether you were creative, just answer some simple questions:
- Did you rise to the challenge and activate your creative energies?
- Did you do the best you could?
- Did you learn anything from the experience?
Creativity Failure
Creativity failure refers to a failure to activate and deploy creative energies when that is natural, possible and required.
Within , those energies depend particularly on the two highest components: and . Weakness here leads to weakness in powerful higher Groups like , , and .
Some states—like self-doubt, complacency, faintheartedness, vacillation, disconnection, procrastination, issue avoidance, drifting, mistrust and fuzzy thinking—interfere with numerous -related elements in the framework. If they are not transient, they will be fatal to any creative effort.
The extreme harmful uses of the elements of naturally vitiate the component in living. See some in this Table.
| Will Element | Self-directed | Other-directed | |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL7 | Willingness | Destructiveness | Negativity |
| RL6 | Purpose | Nihilism | Irresponsibility |
| RL5 | Communication | Blather | Cynicism |
| RL4 | Experience | Addiction | Sociopathy |
| RL3 | Change | Disruption | Power-Lust |
| RL2 | Inquiry | Scepticism | Closed-mindedness |
| RL1 | Action | Violence | Coercion |
Originally posted: 17-Feb-2012.