ARGH! Making a dumb mistake. Could anything be worse than that? Making stupid mistakes tends to leave you red-faced and embarrassed. You trip on an uneven stepping stone because you were running down a muddy path in the dark, and you slip and take a header. Bunged-up knees, scraped shins, bruises, and assorted bumps and lumps are the prizes that remind you of the dumbness of you. You already know you’re not supposed to go careening off in the dark,…
One of the most fun books I have read recently is Melanie Rothschild’s THE ART OF MISTAKES: Unexpected Painting Techniques and the Practice of Creative Thinking. In it she makes a most insightful comment: “Creativity is not just about art. Sometimes it has nothing at all to do with art. Creativity is about how we think, the possibilities we allow into our thinking and our ability to follow through with action. In just about anything we do, we can think…
