How You Can’t Be Creative Without Taking Some Risk

Being creative entails some kind of risk. But further than that, it is not possible to be creative if you don’t take risks.

Creativity requires by definition being unconventional, exploring new spaces and ways of doing stuff. It entails risks. It means frequent failure, and pivots and new tries. It is necessarily messy.

Is it possible to “manage” risks while being creative? Yes, and that is the job of e.g. car designers, who develop concepts and test them with members of the public. There is a fine line between managing creativity and killing it, and many organizations play with that line.

Being creative is a risky business and you must be ready for what it entails – rejection, failure, agony over concepts and ideas. Yet it is worth it. Are you ready?