Success hides problems...you don't need to address problems.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

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

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

I actually feel awkward being at the center of attention.

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.

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