Escaping Mediocrity: The Role of Risk in Unlocking Creativity

March 21st, 2025

By Paul A. Philips

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

When you get down to it, no matter what your situation/circumstance is, you’re still a creative being. This is indeed part of who you really are. So, whatever it is that you’re putting up with in life—maybe you have a real problem that feels like it will never go away, or you are finding yourself stuck in the humdrum daily existence of life—you CAN create the necessary changes to take you away from these things.

This is up to you!

One of the major challenges to someone’s authenticity is when a person has a specific and consistent complaint in life.

Does the following match you? Or maybe someone you know?

As that complaint keeps recurring and is related to the same situation/circumstance, that person keeps complaining about it instead of doing something. The response to this person to enlighten them would be: “If you don’t do anything about it, then stop complaining!” 

So, what changes do you wish to see in your life? You may want to consider a few things to help with your choices. How about choosing a life based on what calls, moves, and inspires you to be in action? It doesn’t necessarily have to be a major life plan, but how about choosing something now in this creative moment?!

One common denominator that frequently occurs when answering the creative call is that it can mean taking a risk. That’s why so many people have stopped listening to the creative voice telling them to do something with their lives that calls, moves, and inspires. It’s because the natural drift for many is to avoid the risk: 

To avoid the risk, the conversation often comes from a cynical and resigned perspective: “Don’t go doing something with your life; you’ll get hurt. ” For example, “Don’t go climbing mountains; you’ll fall and get killed. “Or, say, “Don’t be a footballer; you might break a leg. “Or, “Don’t do any acting or playing music; you’ll make a fool of yourself on stage… etc., etc., etc.

Sure, the mountain you’ve chosen to climb has no regard, no consideration for how able/unable, mentally or physically fit/unfit you are… that the literal or metaphorical weather conditions may be atrocious at those dizzy heights… Indeed, the mountain may be fraught with peril, but the fulfillment and feeling of having achieved something in your life brings great satisfaction, a stark contrast to a life of mediocrity when having climbed it.

After all, the genuinely remarkable Helen Keller famously said, “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all,“ drawing attention to the importance of embracing challenges and taking risks to live a fulfilling life.

Are you the creative type? What is creativity? Well, no one knows exactly. However, several valid statements have attempted to define creativity and what it entails in your life.

Creativity is to invent. That means bringing something into existence or into being. This may involve the courage to trust that everything will turn out fine. Let me explain.

It is very effective to realize that there are two types of trust.

One is the idea that, having looked into everything and from what you’ve experienced, everything looks proven to be trustworthy. That is, trusting something from the point of view of having rationalized or analyzed it. For example, you trust someone when he/she has proven to you over time that he/she can now be trusted, having earned that trust.

In other words, trust is a concept.

Then there’s the other trust, which takes real existential courage. It’s way, way above the concept of trust. This is real trust:

Sooner or later in life, you will find yourself in a situation where you have to make a decision based on no past experience of trustworthiness, no rational basis, no available data—a leap, at least in part, into the unknown…

In other words, you have to be in the presence of trust, which means, ‘I trust that everything will turn out just fine because, quite simply, I trust life.’ This is a vital factor that helps confront risk.

For instance, when considering being in a relationship, starting a new business, or taking to the stage to perform, you may have rationalized and analyzed like crazy to see if it works. However, there are always those elements of risk. So, in the end, you chose to ‘just do it’ because you trust that it will work out just fine—because you trust life.

And that’s it!

Dare you escape your comfort zone through creativity? Dare you trust living the creative life?!

In light of the above, maybe you could list things you are staying in the complaint with? Or, what could you confront for the possibility of what could be after confronting? What is it that you could achieve through getting the creative juice flowing?

Creativity is key to living your life as a self-expression of who you really are. Creativity is also key to living a life that’s nurturing, whole, fulfilling, and complete.

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About the Author:

My blogs, along with the related alternative news website iNewParadigm.com, are about my belief that we can create a world that makes a difference for everyone.

I had graduated in biomedical sciences and worked for a number of years in healthcare. I am now a retiree. My website is slanted on health matters.

However, over the years, I have come to the firm conclusion that practically every subject under the sun needs redefining using more truthful, honest, and integral approaches in theory and practice, hence the website’s name ‘New Paradigm’

From these new approaches, from the ‘imagination of ourselves,’ from our visions… a ‘new era’ in humanity can result!