Leading the creative process

‘Painters and writers share a common moan about the fear of the empty page. There is the blank canvas, the “tabula rasa.” There is nothing out there in the world. But the fear of a blank page is not really an anxiety about having no ideas: it is an anxiety about how to start; how to invade this empty space with your first, terrible, inadequate gesture. Before you take action, there are only your thoughts, your ideas, your visions, jumbled about in the cave of your head. But of course that is quite a lot. The real problem is, actually, how do you start this piece of work?’

Piers Ibbotson, The illusion of leadership, p. 144

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