On creativity, failure, and progress

Wisdom from Kourosh Dini:

> Any creative act is, by definition, one in which we don’t know what the thing will look like in the end.

> Instead, we discover what we are making in the act of its creation.

> There’s even a parallel in our relationships. With another person, we can regularly have breakdowns. There is a break in empathy. One party loses an understanding of the other.

> But by working to return, to find a genuine re-attunement that works for both parties, one that often involves finding a new understanding, we create a new relationship.

> If we hold onto a vision too tightly, it grows brittle and shatters. It is here that we might feel “failure”.

> The work is to realize the feeling of failure as a step of creativity. We can then deliberately engage the fuzzy confusion, the unclear vision, and take some next step forward.