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#158: The Seven Ways Your Creative Brain Will Totally Embarrass You
✅ Day 158 of 365: Creativity Dumpster Fire
April 27, 2020—If you’re a creative person, your brain is your greatest strength, but it will also try to ruin your life and completely humiliate you. Yay!
#1: Validation Seeking
While your creative brain is too proud to beg for validation, it is not above manipulating other humans into “stumbling” on your work by “mistake.”
When unsuccessful, you may find yourself resorting to increasingly obvious tactics, such as leaving your laptop open on the dining room table, laughing out loud, or the classic “posting work to Facebook and then batch-liking your entire news feed in the hopes of digital reciprocity.”
Solution: Seek your own validation.
#2: Catastrophizing
Anxiety is just creativity flipped upside down and when your carousel of horrors gets spinning, you can start to lose touch with reality.
Despite your best efforts to calm the fuck down, your creative brain pulls you toward Facebook, where you message anyone who is even vaguely qualified to diagnose your problem. You instantly regret hitting “send” and start brainstorming ways to assure your friends you are not completely crazy.
Solution: Write down three DIY solutions before asking for help.
#3: Creative ADHD
Mmmm. There’s nothing your creative brain loves more than starting new projects. In fact, you collect them like Pokemon cards.
Hand-coded WordPress plugins, clever logo redesigns, advertising campaigns for imaginary clients, trap beats, 4-minute mile training plans, tiny house schematics…it’s all very impressive. Except that you never finish any of it and no one trusts a single word out of your mouth other than “hello.”
Read the whole story on Medium: https://medium.com/@fthelines/157-the-seven-ways-your-creative-brain-will-totally-embarrass-you-c1298dc278ac
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By Andrew Folts✅ Day 158 of 365: Creativity Dumpster Fire
April 27, 2020—If you’re a creative person, your brain is your greatest strength, but it will also try to ruin your life and completely humiliate you. Yay!
#1: Validation Seeking
While your creative brain is too proud to beg for validation, it is not above manipulating other humans into “stumbling” on your work by “mistake.”
When unsuccessful, you may find yourself resorting to increasingly obvious tactics, such as leaving your laptop open on the dining room table, laughing out loud, or the classic “posting work to Facebook and then batch-liking your entire news feed in the hopes of digital reciprocity.”
Solution: Seek your own validation.
#2: Catastrophizing
Anxiety is just creativity flipped upside down and when your carousel of horrors gets spinning, you can start to lose touch with reality.
Despite your best efforts to calm the fuck down, your creative brain pulls you toward Facebook, where you message anyone who is even vaguely qualified to diagnose your problem. You instantly regret hitting “send” and start brainstorming ways to assure your friends you are not completely crazy.
Solution: Write down three DIY solutions before asking for help.
#3: Creative ADHD
Mmmm. There’s nothing your creative brain loves more than starting new projects. In fact, you collect them like Pokemon cards.
Hand-coded WordPress plugins, clever logo redesigns, advertising campaigns for imaginary clients, trap beats, 4-minute mile training plans, tiny house schematics…it’s all very impressive. Except that you never finish any of it and no one trusts a single word out of your mouth other than “hello.”
Read the whole story on Medium: https://medium.com/@fthelines/157-the-seven-ways-your-creative-brain-will-totally-embarrass-you-c1298dc278ac