6 Famous Artists Talk About What It’s Like to Overcome Fear and Create Beauty
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6 Famous Artists Talk About What It’s Like to Overcome Fear and Create Beauty
here are six passages from famous authors, actors, and artists on how to overcome fear and unleash your creativity.
James Clear • 6 Famous Artists Talk About What It’s Like to Overcome Fear and Create Beauty
It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There's almost no such thing as ready. There's only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I'm about to go bungee jumping or something — I'm not. I'm not a crazed risk... See more
James Clear • 6 Famous Artists Talk About What It’s Like to Overcome Fear and Create Beauty
“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities – I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether... See more
James Clear • 6 Famous Artists Talk About What It’s Like to Overcome Fear and Create Beauty
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
James Clear • 6 Famous Artists Talk About What It’s Like to Overcome Fear and Create Beauty
“When you are thinking about doing something and it feels scary, when it feels like this big lion is waiting at the finish line and he’s roaring and he’s ferocious and he’s going to tear you apart… you should just run toward that lion anyway. Run to the roar.”
James Clear • 6 Famous Artists Talk About What It’s Like to Overcome Fear and Create Beauty
Mental toughness is a skill and like any skill it can be developed. Learning how to overcome fear is just like building a new habit. Start small and increase slowly.