July 31, 2004

If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you

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Just added Num­ber Twelve to “How To Be Crea­tive”:

12. If you accept the pain, it can­not hurt you.

The pain of making the neces­sary sac­ri­fi­ces always hurts more than you think it’s going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously crea­tive is one of the most ama­zing expe­rien­ces one can have, in this or any other life­time. If you can pull it off, it’s worth it. Even if you don’t end up pulling it off, you’ll learn many inc­re­di­ble, magi­cal, valua­ble things. It’s NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the oppor­tu­nity– that hurts FAR more than any failure.

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One Response to “If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you”

  1. Marketing in a Scary Market | Aspiring Minds says:
    August 11, 2011 at 9:28 PM

    […] peo­ple are sca­red.  Don’t run from that.  As car­too­nist Hugh Mac­Leod is fond of saying, “If you accept the pain, it can­not hurt you.”  Speak directly to those fears and that pain … then talk about how your uni­que value […]