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when the actors don't hate the director…
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excerpts from my essay “everyone wants to be a DJ, no one wants to dance” ☁️🫧
Dani Offlinesubstack.comi think it's important for all of us to create things that are so weird and obsessive and hyperniche and passionate that no one would ever accuse it of being AI
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Cringe tolerance: The psychological ability to absorb embarrassment, a key trait separating creators from critics.
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There's a psychological barrier that divides the world into two distinct camps. Those who build things, and those who only critique them. This barrier has nothing to do with technical skill, intelligence, or even opportunity. It's the ability to absorb embarrassment. It's what we might call cringe tolerance.
Every successful entrepreneur,
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Explaining creative 'Resistance': the more important a project is to your soul's growth, the more fear it generates.
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And I'd like your reflections on it and what you intended when you said it, which is, quote, the more important to your soul's growth, the stronger the resistance will be, which for me was very counterintuitive.
We all imagine the creative process as one of, you know, being inspired. Oh, this is my soul's work. and having a ton of motivation to
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