Our own self perpetuated fear can be our worst enemy and greatest impediment to thinking and acting with creative risk. Creative risk is the ingredient that results in ideas, inventions or solutions that represent a leap in end results. Creative risk is the courage to go where no man has gone before (why does that sound so familiar?). Creative risk is the courage to find new and different solutions to old challenges, rather than imitate existing solutions. Creative risk is “thinking different”.
Accidental Creative Podcast #211 (which is worth checking out for anyone who needs to maintain their creativity on an ongoing basis) refers to a practice of Neil Fiore covered in his book “The Now Habit”. Dr. Fiore presents a patient with a 6 inch wide by 10 foot long board, asking if they think they could walk across the plank. They answer in the affirmative until he changes up the challenge by asking what if he elevated it 100 feet in the air suspended between two buildings. The of course not response illustrates how the depth of our fear of failure is affected by the perceived consequences of the failure.
A fear of failure often times interferes with progress, success and growth. Taking calculated risks is no guarantee of success. Unwillingness to take take risks is a guarantee of failure.
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