Courageous Resilience & Creative Risk-Taking (CR2): The ABCs of Designing Disorder

Notice the vertical letter pattern to the right of the first “Preamble” stanza. It’s the rhyme scheme: A-B-CC-A-B-CCC. This is the basic scheme throughout the poem. Also, it’s one reason the poem is subtitled, “The ABCs of Designing Disorder.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Courageous Resilience & Creative Risk-Taking (CR2): The ABCs of Designing Disorder

Preamble Trio: 1) Weariness… 2) Uncertainty… 3) Failure

A Resilience and Risk
B The new “R & R”
C Where effort and pluckr
C With guidance and luckr
A Help you stretch and stickr
B To that rising starr
C Even when feeling stuckr
C Just don’t pass the buck…
C Get real: Will you slog through the muck?
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You’ve been tossed asider
And question your worthr
From reaping and sowingr
Which way’s the wind blowing?
Will you choose to hide?
Or still walk this earth?
With the tide ebb and flowingr
All the time knowingr
Not a clue where you’re going!
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Is failing shameful?
Or a chance to lea

About life and livingr
To be forgivingr
If not successful, thenr
A point where you tu

“Right-Wrong” believingr
Last gasp self-deceiving…
Look…a Phoenix: “born again” grieving! ~~~~~~~~~~~~

Five Stages of Courageous Resilience & Creative Risk-Taking

How do you cultivater
Risk & Resilience?
With ”coeur”-rage and a savvy “tete”: **
Fling an alert-anxious netr
Focus your radar sensater
Explore shadow and substance
“Five Stages” the conduit…
Less a gamble; more fierce mindset
“Design Disorder”…sans regret!

** “coeur” and “tete” – French for heart and head respectively

1. First an Agenda…Then into the Arena

Grabs your mind, heart, and gutr
You’re alive yet still wary –
Just “Constructive Discontent”
Or a brain bolt heaven sent?
Finally, out of your rutr
Wrestling with the contraryr
Hones the range of intentr
While still being hell-bent…
On a stage all too pregnant!

2. Aware-ily Jump In Over Your Head

Take the plunge; eyes wild and wider
Quickly glean skills and resourcesr
For the challenge of losing (it)
Excites laser learning (also wit)…
And surprise! – a dopamine rider
Craving pleasure and dark forces:
Are you in flight or still fighting?
To avert stage fright freezingr
Keep the play brain juice flowing!

3. Strive to Survive the High Dive

Facing Your Intimate FOE:
Oh no…”Fear of Exposure” –
That gap between ambitionr
And a burnout situation…
Cutting edge tension: “b.s.” or grow.
So “Strive High, Embrace Failure” –
Yin/Yang paradox potion:
Repetition with reflection…stillr
Beware Icarus ** perspiration!

** Icarus – in Greek mythology, son of Daedalus who lost his life daring to fly too near the sun on wings of feathers and wax

4. Thrive On “Thrustration”…Incubate to Illuminate

Your ideas just won’t uniter
Still, don’t fight the big muddler
Slowly harness frustration…
Build a platform for “thrustration”: **
Volcanic dreams in the nightr
A lava light for your puzzle…
Now drift with meditationr
Join in collaboration, thenr
An “incubation vacation”:
Let go…retreat…hatch new creation!

** “thrustration” – a term coined by Dr. Richard Rabkin; I defined it as being torn between thrusting ahead with direct action and frustration as you cannot quite put together those key puzzle pieces

5. Design for Error and Evaluation, Coming Out and Opportunity

Pursue three-fold pathways:
Trial, error, and appraisalr
Not a fixed or “my way” goalr
More “b.s.” – be safe! control.
So set hollowed truths ablaze…
From the ashes…mythic renewal:
Mandala ** vision of the soulr
Spirit voice from a black holer
Are you ready?…Let’s “Rock & Roll!

** Mandala – Sanskrit for “magic circle”; a meditative tool/artistic structure often displaying geometric – concentric and symmetric – patterning; for the pioneering psychoanalyst, Carl Jung, a collective unconscious symbol of psychological wholeness or “individuation”; email for more informatio

Closing

On this “R & R” jou
eyr
Not “a means to an end”
Nor a quest “one and done”…
Battles seem lost ere you’ve begun.
Red-hot electric memoryr
Lurking around every bend…
Dark images eclipse your sunr
Still…there’s a chance for madhouse fun:
Will you resist that urge to run?

© Mark Gorkin 2015
Shrink Rap ™ Productionsrn~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~