6.10.2013

creative vulnerability


It’s oddly enticing - the allure of not shipping. Endless untapped ideas never intersect the world outside our control; they remain trapped within our own grasp. It seems like the safest route: constant perfecting, vulnerability absent.

Except, the other side of the equation weighs far too heavily. Unreleased creativity can eat you alive. 
"Unused creativity is not benign - it metastasizes. It turns into shame, grief, rage, judgment, sorrow... We are divine beings, by nature creative, but it gets lost along the way; it gets shamed out of us." - Brene Brown
Your creativity was meant to be shared not withheld. Yes, that equates to dancing directly with vulnerability.

No, creativity is never safe... but denial of your creativity is a far more dangerous thing. We ought never allow fear to suppress our creativity.