Conflict is necessary for growth
- I have a great desire to not get into conflict, but conflict is necessary. Only in the contrast between one thing and another, could the richness of life grow. After all, All the world comes from binary.
- This is true for life, as well as for Story. Story must have conflict. If not, then you don’t have too much of a story at all.
# Relevant Quotes
But if every day is sunny and it doesn’t rain, things don’t grow. And if it’s sunny all the time—if, in fact, we don’t ever even have night—all kinds of things don’t happen and the planet dries up. The key is to view conflict as essential, because that’s how we know the best ideas will be tested and survive. You know, it can’t only be sunlight.” — location: 2135 ^ref-56610 - from Creativity, Inc - Ed Catmull