Failure is part of the creative process.
If you’re afraid of it, you can’t really create.
Danny DeVito
When we read a book or see a play or a movie, it’s usually perfect. We’ll read lines over again or play a scene over and over in our mind. Reveling in it. Feeling it. Living it. It’s perfect. But it didn’t start out that way and being afraid of failure can stop creation.
Nothing Starts Out Perfect
There are rewrites, touch ups, even new actors put into place to make it look perfect. But don’t forget, there was a messy, raw start. There was probably frustration and some tears. And there were rewrites, probably many rewrites. Blooper reels for movies show us just how many flubs can happen before a masterpiece is completed. Because nothing starts out perfect.
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I think the one of the biggest lessons I learned in recent years was to let go of perfectionism and to risk failure. If we don’t stick our necks out and risk making a mistake then we hold ourselves back from so many opportunities.
Fear of failing and perfectionism held me back for far too long. I’m so glad that I took that leap of faith and started my blog.
The enemy of good is perfect…
Alas, you mean I cannot be perfect? I can only aspire to good? Oh well. Guess that’s ok too.
I’ve decided good is better than perfect. Whether right or wrong, your great in my book. (yeesh, that sounded like Frosted Flakes commercial).
I agree. Good is better than perfect. Too much stress behind perfect. And I heard Tony the Tiger in that great!
Fabulous saying…because it’s so true.
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I know. So true, but so easy to forget.
How true this is. I have seen it so many times. But I, myself, am a roll the dice kind of girl.
Danny Devito is spot on when he talks about the fear of failure. Being too perfect is boring… surely?! ?
It certainly is boring….and don’t call me Shirley. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist that Airplane joke!)
Ain’t that the truth Jennifer?? I like the saying ‘progression rather than perfection’. We all have to start somewhere!
Exactly. We always allow our beginner selves to get intimidated by someone else’s experience (that took years of practice.)
Oh boy, you just hit the nail on the head. I am always afraid of looking stupid, so I don’t put myself out there. Great advice!