My writing partner and I have been collaborating for five years and we used to push each other to take bigger creative risks, but success has made us both more careful and now we're protecting what works instead of exploring what might be possible. We can both feel it but we're afraid to name it because what if we can't get back to the good stuff.
More people experience this than they realize.
Achievement can create invisible boundaries around exploration, transforming the very risk-taking that enabled success into something that feels too dangerous to continue.
“Where Are You with Reentry & Second Chances?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.