Dare to fail mightily
Dear Creative Soul,
I was watching a YouTube video just now, an interview with Neil Degrasse Tyson and he said something that made me grab my journal and jot down his words.
He said this: “people who succeed are the people who have failed mightily.”
I have started to make failure my driving creative force, because when I fail, I act. I do. I create. I make things. That’s awesome.
Another benefit: every time I fail at something, I learn something new. My art/junk/scrap journals are all about experimenting and failure.
If an experiment has failed I can always paste something else over it.
My digital art often starts with failed photography. It’s already failed so I just play with it. I play with apps, settings, layers and filters and then, more often than not, I gasp at the results.
I mostly dare to fail mightily on the creative exploit closest to my heart: writing.
I love to just write what comes to mind without expecting results. It may sound weird but this is the only way to write for me.
And success is guaranteed in a way because I honestly do not care whether just one person reads it or 100 do.
Failure is only in not writing.
So, what do you mightily want to fail at?
Create on!
Sylvia