Once executed, the idea will never be as good as it is in my mind? Toughen up. You're trying to create unity, not discord.ĥ. The best you can do is remind yourself that you're a good person with good intentions. I will upset someone I love? A serious worry that is not easily exorcised or stared down because you never know how loved ones will respond to your creation. I have nothing to say? An irrelevant fear. Not Homer or Shakespeare and certainly not you. Someone has done it before? Honey, it's all been done before. People will laugh at me? Not the people I respect they haven't yet, and they're not going to start now.Ģ. So I combat my fears with a staring-down ritual, like a boxer looking his opponent right in the eye before a bout.ġ. If I let them, they'll shut down my impulses ('No, you can't do that') and perhaps turn off the spigots of creativity altogether. 'There are mighty demons, but they're hardly unique to me. Once executed, the idea will never be as good as it is in my mind. When I feel that sense of dread, I try to make it as specific as possible. No one starts a creative endeavor without a certain amount of fear the key is to learn how to keep free-floating fears from paralyzing you before you've begun. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any project.

The last two - distractions and fears - are the dangerous ones. Whatever I am going to create will be a reflection of how these have shaped my life, and how I've learned to channel my experiences into them. These ten items are at the heart of who I am. “When I walk into I am alone, but I am alone with my body, ambition, ideas, passions, needs, memories, goals, prejudices, distractions, fears.

The creative habit by twyla tharp