Comments on: Anything Worth Doing IS WORTH DOING BADLY http://garyunger.com/blog/?p=326 Creativity and the simple execution thereof Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:48:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bruce DeBoer http://garyunger.com/blog/?p=326#comment-348 Bruce DeBoer Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:43:34 +0000 http://garyunger.com/blog/?p=326#comment-348 @jim - so true. Social media has its cost and sometimes it's high. @jim - so true. Social media has its cost and sometimes it’s high.

]]> By: Jim Alexander http://garyunger.com/blog/?p=326#comment-344 Jim Alexander Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:25:04 +0000 http://garyunger.com/blog/?p=326#comment-344 Gary, You've done it again. You've gone and exposed me to another wellspring of interesting thought. Thanks for that. Bruce is, of course, dead on in his central thesis here. What is unsaid, though, is that the truly creative, the experts, the most talented are not alone in chasing creative failure and reveling in their badness. Large numbers of the extremely untalented, THE manifest unworthies, subject us daily (hell, by the minute on Twitter) to their badness without exhibiting even a whiff of the "quiet skill" Bruce mentions. This is the cost to the rest of us, from mediocre to brilliant, for the right to strive as Bruce recommends. Just as I believe my best work is still ahead of me (hope I die with that thought still rattling around in my cranium) so, I believe it is for anyone no matter their badness. I just wish they's take a day off every once in a while:) Gary, You’ve done it again. You’ve gone and exposed me to another wellspring of interesting thought. Thanks for that.

Bruce is, of course, dead on in his central thesis here. What is unsaid, though, is that the truly creative, the experts, the most talented are not alone in chasing creative failure and reveling in their badness. Large numbers of the extremely untalented, THE manifest unworthies, subject us daily (hell, by the minute on Twitter) to their badness without exhibiting even a whiff of the “quiet skill” Bruce mentions. This is the cost to the rest of us, from mediocre to brilliant, for the right to strive as Bruce recommends.

Just as I believe my best work is still ahead of me (hope I die with that thought still rattling around in my cranium) so, I believe it is for anyone no matter their badness. I just wish they’s take a day off every once in a while:)

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