As a technical person, the process matters to me a lot. How we go about achieving the desired outcome is just as important as the outcome. So much of our jobs as technical artists involve planning and executing someone’s creative idea. However, I can be so focused on the process that I can shoot down most of the ideas that people have. Because I am the person responsible for pulling off some crazy idea, how it gets done matters a bunch to me.
I have been kicked out of so many creative brainstorming meetings that I have lost count.
Over time I had become known as that person who cared less about having a great service and more about having the perfect process. Every “i” dotted and every “t” crossed mattered more to me than whatever the final outcome was. Eventually, I learned two things: most brainstormed ideas never happen, and most people in the brainstorming weren’t designed to think about the process required to pull off their idea, that’s me.
So my job is to care deeply about the process because that’s the way God designed me and the way He needs me to fulfill my role in the body of Christ. I also need to be good with people who care deeply about the product, because that’s the way God designed them and the way He needs them to fulfill their role in the body of Christ. God needs us to work together to do both: a great product and a great process.
Be a champion for the part that matters to you. Let others champion the part that matters to them. We must have both.
