{"id":24012,"date":"2012-04-02T01:08:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T01:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-act-of-feeling-frustrated-is-an-essential-part\/"},"modified":"2012-04-02T01:08:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T01:08:36","slug":"the-act-of-feeling-frustrated-is-an-essential-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-act-of-feeling-frustrated-is-an-essential-part\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The act of feeling frustrated is an essential part of the creative process. Before we can find the answer \u2014 before we can even know the question \u2014 we must be immersed in disappointment, convinced that a solution is beyond our reach. We need to have wrestled with the problem and lost. Because it\u2019s only after we stop searching that an answer may arrive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><strong>Jonah Lehrer\u00a0<\/strong>on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/03\/26\/flash-rosenberg-jonah-lehrer-imagine\/\">the importance of frustration in the creative process<\/a>, live-illustrated by Guggenheim Fellow\u00a0<strong>Flash Rosenberg<\/strong>. (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The act of feeling frustrated is an essential part of the creative process. Before we can find the answer \u2014 before we can even know the question \u2014 we must be immersed in disappointment, convinced that a solution is beyond our reach. We need to have wrestled with the problem and lost. Because it\u2019s only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6fi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}