“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”* A great quote by Joseph Chilton Pearce that captured my interest when I came through it. I always think for the reasons why isn't everyone in the universe a creative and a unique person? Not only having a unique personality can be considered as a creative person, but to me a creative person is anyone who is able to live his life in a creative way; the way that matches his personality, satisfies his needs and makes him transcend the normal.
So what keeps a person away from living his creative life? What impedes the life that defines him and reveals the creative person inside him? Many questions I found an answer to them to be very simple: fear. Fear, as I believe, is the main obstacle in front of many creative thinkers to bring their creativity and apply their dreams to the world of reality and change their life totally. Fear is a strong factor that comes in different forms. Fear from the opinions of others. Fear of not getting accepted in the community. Fear of not reaching the top. Fear of failure. And most importantly, fear of being wrong.
According to dictionary definition of creativity, it is the use of imagination or original ideas to create something. Therefore, when a creative idea comes from an expert in a specific field based on previous knowledge and experimenting, that person is less likely to face fear of being wrong and that's because that person has the adequate knowledge to bring about new creative ideas and thoughts to his field. But when it comes to a person who tries to implement a new creative idea of his thought in a field of no prior knowledge, he is most likely to experience an internal fear of being wrong provided that he or she doesn't have the knowledge required to implement his idea.
For example, according to the legend, when the apple fell on Newton's head, he started thinking about the reason it fell downwards and not anywhere else. He reached a creative answer to his questions and that is gravity. Since, he was a physicist and a mathematician, he didn't face his fear of being wrong because he is an expert in his field. If a normal person comes up with this creative idea that a force is pulling everything downwards, he might not bring his idea to the public for having the fear of being wrong.
That's why I believe that the quote sums everything up, we must free ourselves from any kind of fear that we have in order to pursue a creative life.
* http://www.quotes.net/quote/21070
