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Self Worth Theory: The Key to Understanding & Overcoming Procrastination | Nic Voge | TEDxPrincetonU
youtube.comNote carefully that food, work, and sex are all good in themselves. It is the abuse of them that makes them creativity issues.
Knowing yourself as an artist means acknowledging which of these you abuse when you want to block yourself.
If creativity is like a burst of the universe's breath through the straw that is each of us, we pinch that straw whe
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Todd Herman • The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life
This is a little like the sensation of procrastinating. Often, the reason we don’t make a start is because we don’t know what we’re supposed to be doing in the first place – a mystifying fog has set in around us. I call it the fog of uncertainty. This is a well-studied phenomenon; one that scientists call ‘uncertainty paralysis’. It happens when we
... See moreAli Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
What's scary is that, in order to write (or paint or compose or shoot film), we have two choices: 1. We can work from our ego-minds, in which case we will burst blood vessels and suffer cerebral hernias, only to produce tedious, mediocre, derivative crap. 2. We can shift our platform of effort from our conscious mind to our unconscious. Which one d
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