5. Accepting Failure = Becoming Successful

The Creative Process is individualized by the experiences you have. Professor Deb Morrison lectured on examples of the process which, inevitably, had a time lapse of failure. She showed many different processes and several people had moments of self-defeat, frustration, and ultimate failure. The fact that these people knew ahead of time that they were going to fail and knew their creative process well enough to sketch that out, made me view their artistic representations as more human like and real. This spun me to thinking about how my process would look... Considering I love math, I'd most likely sketch it using numbers, bullet points, and more words than pictures.

The processes featured below are from How the Creative Process Works by Robert Nathan. They all use the same steps, but organize them depending on the system.