Risk is an Indispensable Ingredient for Creative Growth

Why artists need to take chances

Photo by Svetlana Pochatun on Unsplash

In 1972, the performance artist Chris Burden devised an artwork in protest against the Vietnam War: he asked his friend to shoot him with a .22 calibre rifle.

He explained his motives:

“I had an intuitive sense that being shot is as American as apple pie. We see…