Failure & Revision

Failure is a device by which we can always learn something new.  When we fail, we are able to identify successful and unsuccessful elements of a project or process.  This allows us to edit our process so that it is more likely successful in the future.  Revision goes hand in hand with failure, as revision allows us to consider the unsuccessful elements of a project and edit, fix, or simply delete them.  The difficulty with this this process is actually identifying what needs to be changed and choosing carefully the way in which it needs to be changed.  However, failure and revision are always learning experiences, no matter whether or not the end result is any better than the original, as the process allows us to learn more about our own methods of working and our own creative processes.

Fixation

The readings compelled me to think about the value systems that we construct while going through  a creative process; because the goal of a creative process is to build value from information, the systems of value involved are integral to the process.  Really, however, value is defined and created by humans and does not exist outside of the context of a consciousness that can apply value.  Equipped with this ideal, we can abandon standards of value that may or may not cause fixation, and therefore create fresh and unprejudiced value and prevent the narrowing of value created by fixation and pure vertical thinking.
An iterative proces is also a good way of holding onto past thoughts while continuing to refine the product of the creative process, and it allows for a comparison of value systems in iterations such that you may yourself narrow and pick a choice from the options.