1) The document discusses how to banish the inner critic and unleash creativity by overcoming fears and negative self-talk that inhibit creative expression.
2) It provides tips for identifying and challenging the inner critic, such as embracing failure, avoiding comparisons, and reframing fears.
3) The author shares her experience of overcoming burnout and writing her first book to encourage readers that there are ways to manage internal criticism and nurture creativity.
13. 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!
49. You’re in good company
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50. Afflicts ALL of us!
http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/jimmy-fallon-the-unsinkable-legend-part-2 (@ 8:15)
51. “…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
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52. We need to unleash
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53. We need brain management
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127. “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
133. …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
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