THE CREATOR ROLE

Turns out, I never really knew you.

—KB

I loved—and still—love, school. Unfortunately, the pass-fail system by which schools test knowledge has instilled in us an unnecessary fear of failure. We either pass or fail and do so by some deadline. And that’s the end.

Failure is not a thing. It is the absence of something. Failure is the absence of effort. Failure is the absence of active creation. The only way we fail is by not trying, by not creating.

Failure is a state so temporary that it flees at the sight of action. We rid ourselves of failure the moment we start again. Failure is our misnamed, friendly reminder that it’s time to start creating again.

There is no deadline at which failure becomes permanent. If we’re still breathing, failure has no grasp on us. If failure is on our minds, it’s serving an important purpose of pushing us forward, pushing us toward action, pushing us to success.

Failure is not what we think it is. Failure does not brand us. Failure is simply a word used to remind us that something is missing. Continue creating, and failure will be gone.

Lesson: Creators do not view failure as a finite outcome but as an advocate for continued action.