Are you suffering from creativity paralysis?

We’ve all heard of analysis paralysis—that maddening loop where overthinking prevents any decision from being made. But in a recent podcast conversation with Beri Meric, founder of Ivy, I was asked a really great question: What about creativity paralysis? The more I sat with the question, the more I realized it’s one of the most underdiagnosed productivity problems leaders face today. I define creativity as the toggle between wonder and rigor—the balance of open-ended imagination and disciplined execution that I call WonderRigor. Creativity paralysis happens at either extreme. Spend too lon...