(1) anxiety + work - by Alex Dobrenko` - The Sublime Newsletter
Your anxiety isn’t a creative liability; it’s a sign that you care deeply about your work. And the difference between creative paralysis and creative flow isn’t the absence of anxiety—it’s the presence of curiosity alongside it.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • The Anxiety-Curiosity Switch: How to Redirect Your Mental Energy for Creativity
Such anxiety is a response to an unconsciously perceived threat to self-esteem—to the sense of control, efficacy, and worth. The fear seems to be metaphysical, directed at the universe at large, at existence as such. It implies that “to be” is to be in danger—beyond any ordinary, rational sense in which this may be said to be true. There is a feeli
... See moreNathaniel Branden • Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect
Anxiety, as Rollo May also pointed out, “is not being able to know the world you’re in, not being able to orient yourself in your own existence.”
Erik Rittenberry • The Comfortable Life is Killing You
Creativity is the opposite of anxiety. While anxiety stems from uncertainty and lack of control, creativity channels that uncertainty into optimism.