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Antidotes to creative fears

Antidotes to creative fears

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Antidotes to creative fears

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- There's a cliche about a certain kind of tough guy who laughs at fear. (energetic rock music) (record scratching) The thing is the types of fears that stifle your creative process really are pretty laughable. Yeah, I know deadlines can pressure and the need to deliver can be significant, but really for most of us failing at a creative endeavor is not going to mean that someone dies or is harmed or is deprived of something essential. Fine, maybe there are consequences sometimes for creative failures, but are those consequences really so bad that you need to go into full on fight or flight, fear based, paralyzing insanity? Perspective can be a good anecdote to fear, but still fear can be tenacious, so let's look again at (drum roll) (air woosh) (boom) (air woosh) (dramatic music cue) Long's Taxonomy of Fears. This is the exact same list that you saw last time. I just really like the pulling the thing down again, so I thought I'd do it again. I like this part also, I got. Alright…

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