Comments on: Fear

By: Brenda

Brenda — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:55:23 +0000

Thank you for the article. Fear.Less. will be the topic in my office this morning. This article reminds me that being creative in my business is my business! I’m going to have a great Fear.Less day thanks!

By: Jeannine

Jeannine — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:59:04 +0000

Love this post, especially the anecdote about the law firm associate! As a former lawyer myself, I know all too well how that one phrase could have made its way all over without anyone noticing. Though I left the practice because I felt it was oh so stifling, I often find myself looking for examples, someone to tell me THE way something should be done. Thank you for reminding me that this “openness” is in itself one of the true joys of owning a creative business, that creativity is important not just to WHAT you do, but HOW you do it, too.

By: Donnie Bell Design

Donnie Bell Design — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:55:13 +0000

Your clients can determine how forward thinking you can be. It seems that most clients want a copy of some item or some other design and when you try to deliver originality, it is deemed “too edgy” (that’s not to say there are clients on ocassion who want you to push the envelope). So you fall back into being safe to please them and I don’t necessarily blame them. It seems this is the way society is going. “Creativity” isn’t relying on originality anymore. It’s relying on how you can turn plagiarism into flattery. It’s up to us to find a way to sell clients on originality and not conservative work or ones that copy cat.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:14:44 +0000

hey man, thanks for the shoutout to fear.less. made my day. great post, too. authenticity is always a challenge. all this meta-analysis and questions of relevance and how much conformity is okay, bouncing off each other. way to hit on the problems so many of us face daily.