Personal growth: Jumping off the cliff of self-actualization October 5, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Overcoming Fear.Tags: achieving goals, creativity, goal setting, inspiration, life, personal development, phiosophy, psychology, self-actualization
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In discussing the many challenges in creative writing, Ray Bradbury gave some excellent advice which applies to the large-scale project of living life itself creatively and the more focussed innovative efforts we try to make in our self-development work.
Namely, that in all matters requiring creativity, we need to put aside our fears, jump off the cliff, and then build our wings on the way down.
We can gradually master the skills required in whatever project we are working on and can be assured of varying levels of success in learning those skills.
But in making the big leap into an entire philosophy of self-improvement, while realizing that it might not work takes a lot of courage.
And if we think about it too much, we will probably not be willing to gamble on making the required investment in time, commitment and effort.
But, for sure, if we don’t jump, we won’t be making our wings, or soaring creatively.
— Dennis Mellersh
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