Embrace your frustration

To be creatively successful, we must embrace the emotional discomforts most ordinary people work diligently to avoid at all costs.

An unpleasant truth about creative endeavors is that if you’re not feeling frustrated, it’s quite likely you’re not actually making any progress.

As I’ve written about before (become sidetracked by clicking here) much of the creative process isn’t exactly enjoyable. In fact, it often feels indistinguishable from failure and, as a result, is laden with se…