The issue of risk is absolutely central to being a creative person... I'm a very big believer in starting small and getting feedback from the world and course correcting there. (Source: Michael Ellsberg, The Necessity of Creative Risk Taking | Big Think) If risk-taking is fundamental to creativity as I've repeatedly insisted, then how do we assess what risks are worth taking, how do we to scale ...
Risk
Courage to Live the Dream
Do you have the courage to live the dream? Your dream? Or is it okay with you to live crisis-to-crisis, to muddle through your one brief existence reacting to the ups and downs as you find them? Never Truly Lived You've probably heard about elderly people who look back from the final stretch and regret the risks that they did not more often that the risks that they did take. Regret the dreams ...
Great Leaps & Subtle Changes
"The journey from semi-anonymity of the Cardew-inspired piece to the highly identifiable Spira bowl has involved a series of progressions, each one exploring new ideas and diverse thoughts, each of them different interpretations of the classic form of a bowl. Some have involved a great leap, others more subtle moves, all part of a potter finding his own way with clay." ~ Emmanuel Cooper ("Taking ...
Bold Creative Risk
Unfettered by prudence, caution, inhibition. Undaunted by convention or expectation. I have a hunch that many adults — midlife, midcareer, mid marriage, mid mortgage, midway to retirement — grow conscious, subtly at first and then slightly less subtly, creative impulses still linger from way back, dormant instincts to forge something out of nothing. No, that's not exactly right. More alchemy. ...
Risk
"To create art on the spot. To step forward an express oneself. It always meant taking enormous chances." ~ Ken Burns, Jazz ...