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The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

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By Sarah Lewis — 2025

The gift of failure is a riddle: it will always be both the void and the start of infinite possibility. See more...

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Why Being Creative Is Good for You

What is the key to creativity, and how does it help our mental health? Beverley D’Silva speaks to Artist’s Way author Julia Cameron and others about ‘flow,’ fear and curiosity.

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SARK on Being an Artist and Dealing with Our Inner Critic

As part of the 2018 Transformational Author Experience, host Christine Kloser provided a free Playbook with contributions by multiple authors including Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy, better known as SARK.

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Rejection Makes You a Better Artist - Sujata Day

With her infectious personality and unique sense of humor, Pittsburgh native Sujata Day has established herself as a performer, creator, writer, and director. She regularly performs in Upright Citizen Brigade’s hit Asian AF show.

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Rejection and How to Deal - Tips For Artists

Artist Tips by Rafi and Klee, two full-time artists who give practical advice about being an artist in today’s art market.

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Frau Isa on Transcending Art School Rejection

Watch this talk On Doubt in Creative Processes

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How to Deal with Rejection? | AATS | Atul Mongia | Elnaaz Norouzi | The Artist Collective

How to deal with rejection? Acting Mentor and Founder of The Artist Collective Atul Mongia in discussion with Actor Elnaaz Norouzi Acting and The Self is a series of short episodes that has been designed and composed by The Artist Collective, with the purpose of exploring and answering some of the...

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How to Be Competitive as an Artist

I used to hate competition. But now it doesn’t bother me. I figured out that competition was so unpleasant because I was focusing too much on everyone else. I lost track of me in the process.

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How Artists Work with Rejection, a Constant Part of the Arts World

What do actors, writers and other artists, and psychologists and therapists, say about this common experience of rejection–and how to better deal with it?

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‘I Allow Myself a Mini-Wallow’: How to Handle Rejection in the Arts

No matter how talented you are, if you work in the creative arts, you’ll likely experience rejection—whether it’s losing a job, or getting your ideas, art, funding applications, or pitches turned down.

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How Artists Can Master Dealing with Rejection

I’ve learned about how artists can deal with rejection from well over 1,000 interviews with artists for Yale University Radio, as well as my experience as an artist...

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