In her excellent book, The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp identifies five reasons why people are too afraid to take the risk necessary for living their lives at the next level. In parentheses, I’ve added why these reasons are all false or illogical: People will laugh at me. (At least you will have a heads up about why they are laughing.) Someone has done it before. (We academics are very sensitive to plagiarism.) I have nothing to say. (You do.) I will upset someone I love. (Remember, Walt’s own wife and brother didn’t believe in his dreams for Snow White or Disneyland). Once executed, the idea
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