Your inner critic is an unconscious deterrent that stands between the seeds of great ideas and the fruits of achievement, keeping you stuck by telling you you’re just faking it, that others have more talent, that you’ll never achieve the success you seek. Let's discover how to anatomize this pernicious inner force, and then learn techniques to banish this critic so that you can have the mental space and energy to let your true talents emerge -- and help you be a badass with your work.
14. I shouldn't be writing this
I misrepresented myself
I don't know enough
This should be someone else’s book
I’m going to look stupid
Everyone will see that I’m a fake
What if it's not good enough?
What if I'm not good enough?
No…really!
48. Afflicts ALL of us!
http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/jimmy-fallon-the-unsinkable-legend-part-2 (@ 8:15)
49. “…I don’t have what these people want to
see – they want to see a funny guy! That’s not
me.”
- Jerry Seinfeld, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
https://www.flickr.com/photos/97477873@N00/13016287284/
53. “You must be
unintimidated by your
own thoughts because if
you [try to create] with
someone looking over
your shoulder, you'll
never [create].”
– Nikki Giovanni
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nrbelex/2247397943/
54. “The goal is to manage
anxiety so that our energies
are used for the productive
and satisfying art of
creating…
55. …rather than the destructive
and debilitating art of self-
torture. “
- Clare Warmke, Idea Revolution
68. “Our bodies change our minds,
our minds change our behavior,
and our behavior changes our
outcomes.”
- Amy Cuddy, Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are TED talk
118. “The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but
never jam to-day.”
“It MUST come sometimes to ‘jam to-day’,” Alice
objected.
“No, it can’t,” said the Queen. “It’s jam every
OTHER day: to-day isn’t any OTHER day, you
know.”
— from Through the Looking Glass & What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll
122. Show you there is an alternative
https://www.flickr.com/photos/buttersponge/4955768144
123. “The creative
adult is the
child who
survived after
the world tried
killing them,
making them
‘grown up’….
https://www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/9220121158/
124. …The creative adult is the child who survived the
blandness of schooling, the unhelpful words of bad
teachers, and the nay-saying ways of the world.”
– Ursula K. L Guin
https://www.flickr.com/photos/theburiedlife/2167001643/
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132. My upcoming book!
Banish Your Inner
Critic
DeniseJacobs.com/InnerCritic
26 Effective Techniques for
Unleashing Productive
Creativity
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