Increase Creativity A-Z - M Is For Mistakes - How Mistakes Can Be Your Creativity's Greatest Teacher

Making “mistakes” is one of the biggest fears we have in creating.

Not wanting to make a mistake severely limits the risks we are willing to take in our creative projects and in all areas of our creativity.

Mistakes have so many negative connotations and ugly baggage.

No doubt you can come up with enough other reasons not to create, without even thinking about that fate-worse-than-never-creating-again known as the “mistake”.

But in fact, if we just gave them a chance, mistakes are actually an incredibly powerful tool to help us increase our creativity.

If you’re prepared to let them, mistakes can actually be the greatest teacher to your creativity that you’ll ever have.

Here a 5 of the most compelling reasons why:

1. You learn to be more courageous in creating. If you don’t mind making the odd mistake here and there, you’re more free to explore new creative ideas, take new paths, try new stuff you wouldn’t have done otherwise.

2. You become more open to learning. You don’t think you know all the answers right away and are prepared and willing to discover the many different ways that are going to help you be as creative as you can be.

3. They remind you that you’re human. You’re an artist striving to create meaningful art. The greatest art speaks to us on a human emotional level. You’re a living, learning, imperfect artist, not a cold, heartless, automated machine! Making mistakes is all a part of that.

4. You discover new media and forms to create in. If you’re not afraid of mistakes, you’ll embrace new forms of creating, and see how they can work for you. If you live in fear of mistakes, you’ll never even contemplate new media you’ve never tried before.

5. You simply create more. Because you don’t feel everything you create has to be an instantly perfect finished product, you’ve already eliminated many of the reasons not to create more. Leaving the door to abundant creating wide open!

These are just 5 of the reasons why making mistakes, far from being a cause for fear and dread, should be embraced.

Making mistakes can be the greatest teacher your creativity will ever have, and can help you be more creative than you thought possible.

So embrace your creative mistakes and let them starting teaching you how to increase your creativity today!

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