Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 73
John Lowe, “Excitement”
John Lowe is such a great guest, don’t be surprised if this second visit isn’t his last.
When he came back a second time he hit two really important topics, failure and leadership.
He embraced that failure is a necessary dynamic in any new initiative. When it’s something you haven’t done before and especially when it’s true pioneer work that no one has done before, you want to fail. In fact you want to fail fast and fail often so you can learn fast and gain lots of important new information, likely information only you have. Then you integrate that new knowledge and move forward, informed by your failures, better capable of making decisions.
Failure = Learning
John also spoke about the distinction between managers and leaders. One of the shorthand differences I learned was that managers know how to do things right, leaders know what the right things are to do. John added perhaps the most important aspect of leadership and that’s the intentional, genuine care for the folks you are leading that results in them not only doing their best work, but also allows them to develop.
John is a painter and a poet. His work has appeared in numerous galleries and shows, and his first book of poetry is ‘Ramblings of a Common Man.’ He lives in Raleigh and loves hearing from like minded folks at wardlowe1@att.net.
And you can view more of his paintings at jloweartworks.com
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
chapelboro.com does not charge subscription fees, and you can directly support our efforts in local journalism here. Want more of what you see on Chapelboro? Let us bring free local news and community information to you by signing up for our biweekly newsletter.
