What are some of the things that get in the way of us being our creative

best? There are many culprits, like procrastination and having an over-
scheduled life, but I think that Public Enemy Number 1 is Fear.

We are afraid to be wrong. We are afraid to make a mistake. We’re

afraid of not being perfect. We’re afraid of looking stupid and being
laughed at or being rejected. There are a million scary things out there
and inside us that make us say to (we), “pursue creativity? I don’t think
so.”

“Fail, fail again, fail better.” Those are the words of Samuel Beckett, the
Nobel Prize winner for Literature, when asked what was the secret to
being creative. So why do we shun the necessity of (fail)? What
(science) would refuse to go to his lab for fear of not getting the test
results she wants?

Fear of expressing our innate creativity as a thinking tool is

counterproductive and often leaves us unable to think clearly and deeply
at all. It doesn’t help us to be better workers, it doesn’t help us be better
parents, and it doesn’t help us have better lives. As a matter of fact,
rejecting or ignoring your creativity can leave you frustrated and feeling a
great emptiness in your life.