Firstly, thank you to all the new listeners, you sharing this pod with others has helped a lot as the figures have gone through the roof! So thank you for your support and please continue to press those share buttons and share with your friends.This episode discusses where the line is, between, coming up with the gold, which is original, brilliant, authentic and genius or producing something safe, cliché and unoriginal? There must be a formula and that is what I discuss here. As well as a formula, there is the inevitability of failure. Well, of course, how do you come up with something that no one else would? By being brave and taking the risk that actually, you don't know enough about where the edge is and may end up either falling over the edge of the cliff OR not going near enough to the edge.This is a philosophical subject that plays out in our everyday activities, from the mundane to the creative, from the tiny to the large. Of course some things desire us to just nail, be safe and not take risks. But when it comes to art, we need to be brave, take risks, be prepared to fail in order to seek out and bring back the gold to the people. We always hear successful people say that they had to fail. But I wanted to dig deeper into that and many other ideas about the idea of how we find that which is gold, sought out by people and found to be valuable and really stands out.As always, if you enjoy this podcast please rate and review with your podcast provider so that it is easier for others to find it.The podcast is powered by the book Staying Sane In the Music Game, available WORLDWIDE from all the usual outlets. For more info go to www.stayingsane.org