You can hoard creative work, keeping it hidden from others, and some people do just that – writing a novel, for example, that remains for years in a closet. But most creators need to risk criticism and rejection to get their project seen or realized. A screenplay doesn’t become a movie by staying secret.
Stephen King [...]
One of the many things that can fuel our sense of failure is comparing what we do and attempt to do with what others have accomplished.
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, is, of course, a prime example of success and accomplishment.
But in this video, her Commencement Address st Harvard University, June 5, 2008, [...]
When something happens to us or we do something that can be called a failure, there are often ideas and feelings we attach to that experience, such as thinking we are lacking or insufficient, or have lost personal power or strength, or we call ourselves a person who does not succeed.
So we may think it [...]
This video – “Failure: The Secret to Success” – may be a corporate image propaganda commercial for Honda, but it has some good stuff on attitudes about failure and bouncing back.
For example, talking about her life-threatening crash, race driver Danica Patrick comments: “There was a crash.. My brain was covering up for the fact this [...]
The strengths movement
One of the strongest values of positive psychology and related applications such as executive coaching is encouraging people to appreciate strengths and capabilities, not just uncover dysfunctions and disorders.
Writer Marcus Buckingham finds “the strengths movement is everywhere: the corporate world, the worlds of public service, of economics, of education, of faith, of charity [...]
