Experimentation means trying something deliberately so you can learn from what happens, rather than having to settle the whole question in advance.
The attempt needs a scale you can live with. A conversation, a sketch or a trial workshop can teach you something without requiring you to reorganise your entire life around an untested idea.
Give the question something real to answer.
You keep wondering whether you’d enjoy teaching. Thinking about the identity of being a teacher isn’t the same as preparing one session and discovering how you feel while helping people learn.
Perhaps you love it. Perhaps you love the subject but not the format. Both are useful findings.
The Creative Hero’s Journey invites this kind of contact with what you want to make. You bring your thoughts, feelings and practical circumstances into a bounded attempt, then consider the response. The result can revise the idea without becoming a verdict on your ability to create.
You’re not marrying the first draft. You are finding out what it’s like to meet.
Feedback helps you decide which responses to use. Creative process places experiments alongside making, revising and finishing.
Noba’s Creativity explores the processes involved in generating and developing ideas. It offers background for treating an early attempt as part of creating, rather than as proof that you should already know the outcome.