Posting your art is scary. Keeping it in a folder forever guarantees nobody it could help ever sees it.
CREATIVITY
WHAT THIS MEANS
The fear of showing work is really the fear of being judged for it, and that fear is reasonable. What it hides is the other cost: the person who would have recognized something in it never gets the chance. Silence protects you completely and helps nobody, including you.
Share one piece somewhere small rather than waiting for the confident version of yourself to arrive. Choose a place where the audience is limited and the stakes are low. Do it a few times and the fear becomes ordinary, which is the most you should expect of it.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Who might need the thing you are too shy to post?
MORE IN CREATIVITY & ORIGINALITY
- Start the project today with a messy plan. A perfect plan next month is just a nicer way to say “no.”
- People forget numbers by lunch. They remember stories for years. If you want to convince someone, tell them one.
- Write it down. Half the time you’ll find out what you actually think somewhere in the second paragraph.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.