If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

I actually feel awkward being at the center of attention.

Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.