Being hung up on our “precious ideas” is so natural that it takes deliberate efforts to let go, be open to alternative ones and try to build on them. It’s interesting observing myself in a group setting and asking “what’s going on inside?” Sometimes it takes time to process feelings, but I’m sure over time I’ll be more in touch with my inner world. I’m glad about learning more about myself and learning to work with different people. This is the real deal (or getting close to it). I wouldn’t want to go into the real world without experiencing these.
It’s also easy to care more about the end product than about the process, but come to think of it, it makes much better sense learning how to fish – even though it takes time – than having a big fish now. I like reminding myself “What’s the worst that could happen?” because it’s true that this is the environment where mistakes or imperfections are least consequential.
Being pulled out of the team in which I spent half of the project time with and being thrown into a different team is a good way to practice both letting go of ideas and learning to care about the process more than the outcome. It’s interesting to see that my new team’s design idea is quite close to one of the ideas I’ve got. So, my original idea is not that “original” or “precious” after all.
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