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I’d Be More Creative If…

Allen Ruppersberg why do we fail

Even at our most creative moments, we could go further if it were not for that little voice inside our head.

And that little voice puts up roadblocks. Sometimes those roadblocks are real, but more often those roadblocks are completely constructed from nothing but irrational fear or the most basic of actions. Perhaps knowing that other people share many of the same silly roadblocks–and even knowing what some of them are–will help us all move through them.


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So today’s post is simple. Let’s put it out there. Just complete the sentence “I’d be more creative if…”

I’ll start us off. I’d be more creative if I more regularly created the quietness in my life that creativity requires.

Now it’s your turn.

[Why Do We Fail poster by Allen Ruppersberg]

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  1. Don Carter says:
    February 7, 2011 at 10:36 pm

    I’d be more creative if I lowered my standards and kept in the front of my mind that I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.

  2. Bengt says:
    November 10, 2010 at 12:45 am

    …I had more time and balls to do more personal projects, wasn’t afraid to fail.

  3. Avidsyn says:
    November 2, 2010 at 11:23 pm

    I’d be more creative if I could break that subconscious restraining barrier.

  4. Will says:
    November 2, 2010 at 9:24 pm

    I’d be more creative if I stopped worrying about what other people thought, and let that stop me creating. And if I stop making excuses and just do….

  5. Benny says:
    November 2, 2010 at 5:54 pm

    I’d be more creative if I were free. Since I finished college and started a full-time job I haven’t produced anything like I did when I was an unemployed student. I’d be more creative if I wasn’t forced to grow up and spend all my creative moments behind a desk, in front of a work computer.

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