Survivorship
Bias is our tendency to see the people who made it through some selection process,
without seeing those that did not (even if the reason was luck). We study the
stories of success like people studying that the roulette ball landed on black
rather than red. It is too hard to get a good picture of each important fork in
the road, and what could have happened. You can’t study what ifs without a solid
imagination. I am a bigger believer in focusing on the foundations. Creativity
isn’t a path, it is a process. For that process to work, you need endurance and
resilience. Creativity isn’t picturing a world you want and building it. It is building
the strength, flexibility and control to make your way through a world that is
complex, ambiguous, and random. Those foundations include kindness and respect.
Not earned by being a story of success. Earned by a commitment to show up.
Today, and every day.
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