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.
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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!
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“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
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“Fear is not real. It is a product of the
thoughts you create.
Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very
real. But fear is a choice.”
- character of Cypher Raige (played by Will Smith), After Earth
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Take steps, #FAIL; Go again!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/959864706/AND http://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/959867550/
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“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
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…is the child who survived!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/theburiedlife/2167001643/
…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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