I found this TED Talk to be inspiring and compassionate. Alain de Botton acknowledges that it takes more than individual human will to be successful and therefore failure has a very different meaning. His idea about Greek tragedies being insights into human error was also perceptive. And he has a good sense of humor. Tweet

Creative success takes years to manifest and is happening now. I read an ad by a writer who is looking for someone to edit his work and find representation for a book he has written. I imagined a prolific writer who had not found worldly success reaching for an ally to help create a better [...]

My friend explained to me how he had to get a bigger wallet because he had more cash now. He had started a t-shirt business based on his original graphic designs. The shirts were selling and so he had more cash and needed to get a new wallet. It is a creative success problem. Creative [...]

The dream came to me at just the right time. I had been floundering, unable to get my footing emotionally and feeling as if giving up were the right solution to my problems. I wanted to leave the creative life alone for some version of whatever I imagined “normal life” to be. It seemed to [...]

The last two weeks were intense. I wanted to give up on my creativity and have a “normal” life. I was putting in a lot of work but not seeing much results. Success was elusive while failure seemed to be the outcome of most of my initiatives. I began to question my judgment: “How can [...]