What is Betrayal?

Paradigmatic innovation requires betrayal.

Paradigmatic change is not an improvement of an existing world, but a total rupture. You will need to leave a world behind. This is a very difficult thing to do. You will feel deeply torn, uncertain and out of your depth. You will be judged as crazy, mistaken, dumb… On top of this you will have no guarantee that you are onto anything worthwhile. This state of being is not the same as being comfortable with failure. It is a deeply unsettling uncertainty that does not go away.

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Additional Glossary Terms Related to Betrayal

Change, World, Change in Kind, Surrender, Radical Innovation

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For More On Betrayal

• Vol 176: Welcoming the Discomfort
• Vol 69: 23 Ways to Practice Innovation and Creativity
• Vol 181: The Assassins of Creativity - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Vol 169: Creativity is Worldmaking
• Vol 87: The Paradoxes of Re-Orienting Towards Co-Action