{"id":665,"date":"2008-01-31T09:58:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T09:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/creative-discom\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T09:58:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T09:58:56","slug":"creative-discom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/creative-discom\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Discomfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the wisest things you can do in your career and life is to embrace discomfort.&nbsp; Really, its just about changing\/learning in order to make your life a masterpiece.&nbsp; Once again, a masterpiece is not a respecter of your income, fame, family, car or social network.&nbsp; There is a masterpiece in you, and only you can get it out.<\/p>\n<p>So what does discomfort do for your masterpiece?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It keeps your senses on fire, as it relates to new trends and new paths.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>It keeps you away from group think (a poisonous exercise).&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>It reminds you that you only have a limited time to get this life right. <\/li>\n<li>It reminds you that maybe you were put here to inspire others to discover. <\/li>\n<li>It reminds you that true success doesn&#8217;t come without discomfort.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some years ago, when I ran the halls of corporate America, I was teaching a group of associates about the idea of Creative Discomfort.&nbsp; In that workshop, I had the group (about 20 people) walk down and up 3 flights of stairs-backwards.&nbsp; It was priceless to see and absorb.&nbsp; Those people learned that day the cost of being in a state of discomfort.&nbsp; But what&#8217;s inspiring is how they got used to walking up and down backwards.&nbsp; It didn&#8217;t take very long for the group to realize how breakthroughs come-usually where we&#8217;re afraid\/unwilling to go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brandautopsy.com\/practitioner\/\">John Moore<\/a> over at <a href=\"http:\/\/brandautopsy.typepad.com\/brandautopsy\/\">Brand Autopsy<\/a> has a wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/brandautopsy.typepad.com\/brandautopsy\/2008\/01\/the-social-medi.html\">post<\/a> on THE Social Media MATRIX that reinforces my thoughts on Creative Discomfort.&nbsp; I love his connection to The Matrix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the wisest things you can do in your career and life is to embrace discomfort.&nbsp; Really, its just about changing\/learning in order to make your life a masterpiece.&nbsp; Once again, a masterpiece is not a respecter of your income, fame, family, car or social network.&nbsp; There is a masterpiece in you, and only&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}