“I used to see failure in a very negative way but now I’ve accepted that it’s part of the process, it’s about learning to accept failure,” Sarah Flynn, UX designer, Each&Other.

Embracing failure seems to be a common theme amongst the latest Instagram Live participants. The B!G Idea shouts regularly from the rooftops about fLearning – failure when learning and it appears that our Mentors are listening aswell. James Gaskin, the CEO of BDO said that you can’t fail when doing something creative, you just keep building on the work and learning from it and eventually you will get through that glass ceiling. He believes that fear is the biggest barrier to success, not failure.

Catherine Ryan, CEO of Ryan Marketing Solutions agrees with this concept saying that the main thing when being creative is not to be afraid. Aim to be 1% better every day and bit by bit you will get there. Colm O’Connor from Scurri agrees saying there’s no such thing as a creative fail. Design is so subjective that no matter what you do everybody is going to love it or hate it in equal measure. Once you put in the effort and the research and you’re confident with your idea, then you can’t really fail.

Some advice from Sarah comes from Austin Kleon’s words and what he’s saying is to be inspired by other people’s work, to take the best bits of what they’re doing, mix it all together to help you create something unique yourself. Nothing is ever 100% original and everything comes from or is inspired by something that came before. Sound advice there.

According to Masih Shafieian, Associate Project Manager in Unum, creativity comes in so many different shapes. The most important aspect of creativity is having the courage to explore and find out more about what you want to do and where your ideas will take you.

There are all sorts of times and places for being the most creative so it’s up to each person to find their own unique one. It could be while walking the dog, on the way home from work, in the shower or the worst time of all when trying to get to sleep at night.

The one thing we learn every single time from The B!G 5 Live is that with creativity there is no right or wrong, everything you do will only help you the next time you try.

Our incredible Mentors can’t be wrong so get stuck in and get creative!