thoughts on ego involvement and the weight of being
fears about yourself prevent you from doing your best work, while fears about your reception by others prevent you from doing your own work.
David Bayles • Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
it sometimes leads to a failure to engage fully in the work out of a fear that it will never measure up, and because self-worth is tied to results, the deeper fear is that failure in work means failure in life.
Todd Henry • Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day
I still feel the familiar flutter of anxiety every time I'm about to publish something. I still wonder if I'm qualified, if I'm smart enough, if anyone will care. But I'm learning to see those feelings not as stop signs but as information—signals that I'm about to do something vulnerable, something that matters to me, something that might matter to... See more