May 3, 03:29 pm
How Do You Pummel Yours?
Your ‘inner critic’ that is.. You know the one… she sits on your shoulder while you stare at a blank page feeling inadequate and untalented and dares you to try, while telling you all the while that you’ll never be good enough, arty enough, clever enough, anything enough…
Personally, I like lists. As per a previous comment, when I make or create something and find Little Miss Critical breathing down my neck, I give her free reign. I let her write a list of everything that’s wrong with it and why I should never ever have considered trying in the first palce.
When it finally goes quiet and she runs out of things to say I tell her very firmly” tough – I made it and I’m damned proud of it. So There.” (occassionally I poke my tongue out at her as well, just for emphasis)
Then I chuck the list in the bin and move on.
What about you?
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