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Tag: self-confidence
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The Art and Purpose of Self Doubt
Wait, you’re thinking. What about crippling self-doubt? The sort of thing that freezes the creative brain in place like a deer in a spotlight until the moment has passed and we just can’t even? There’s an art to it? A purpose, even? Well, sure. Self-doubt is hand in hand with self-restraint, and discretion being the…
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The Inner Voice
“You’re not very good at this, are you?” Well, no. But then again, no one is very good at something they just started doing, are they? And add to that, if they think they are good, there’s a high probability that they are in fact bad at it. But that’s not what your inner voice…
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Dumbo’s Feather
I think I can safely spoiler the movie Dumbo here. In the movie the tiny but spunky baby elephant is bullied for his big ears, but with the help of a ‘magic’ feather, discovers he can use them to fly. Only… when he loses the magic feather, he starts to fall without it. It takes…
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Confidence and Creativity
The First Reader was teasing me the other day. He pointed out that he knows exactly what’s coming. I’ll finish this book (this week, really. I could wrap it in a day but I don’t think that’s happening today) and I will tell him that it sucks. I can’t deny it. it’s not just that…