{
  "id": "let-the-response-change-it",
  "number": "078",
  "edition": "Practice",
  "title": "Let the response change it",
  "standfirst": "The work can become different once it meets the world.",
  "when": "You are protecting the original concept from information produced by making it.",
  "way": "Execution is not merely the delivery of an intact idea. Materials resist, collaborators interpret, audiences behave unexpectedly and prototypes disclose new possibilities. The response is part of the creative process, not an interruption to it.",
  "tryThis": "List three ways reality has contradicted your plan. Treat one contradiction as a design instruction for the next version.",
  "notice": "Which change feels like the work becoming more itself rather than less yours?",
  "person": "Virginia Satir",
  "source": "The Contemporary Blueprint archive",
  "quote": "An event doesn’t determine your fate; how you cope with it does. Death, sickness, and hardship happen to everyone, and whatever comes next is shaped in the coping—both the strength it builds and the opportunities it opens. Some people say if you “lived right” you wouldn’t face these things, but we don’t know enough to believe that, and avoiding reality isn’t the point anyway. We’re going to die one day, and we all have weaknesses and blind spots—like the fact that none of us can see our own back. What I think of as “reality” is what I see, but what I see isn’t the whole reality. There’s always an unknown just behind us, and once you notice that, you start to see how absurd it is to believe the world is only what’s visible to you.",
  "sourceUrl": "https://youtu.be/gW3KShRdKMo",
  "contexts": [
    "stuck",
    "decide",
    "change"
  ],
  "free": true,
  "related": [
    "keep-practicing-after-it-works",
    "build-the-missing-middle",
    "compare-it-to-the-seed"
  ],
  "sourceArchive": "The Contemporary Blueprint",
  "referenceKind": "quotation",
  "referenceExcerpt": "We’re going to die one day, and we all have weaknesses and blind spots—like the fact that none of us can see our own back. What I think of as “reality” is what I see, but what I see isn’t the whole reality. There’s always an unknown just behind us, and once you notice that, you start to see how absurd it is to believe the world is only what’s visible to you."
}