state of creativity paralysis.
Overwhelm Obstruction: You are so focused on the stuff you feel you “have” to do that you don’t have the bandwidth to divert to creative thinking. Being creatively inspired seems like a pipe dream and something for other people. Doing anything creative is yet another thing to do on the long list of things that are already on your plate.
Creativity Misgivings: You sometimes think of yourself as creative, but you don’t trust your creativity at all – you see your creativity as fleeting, unreliable, and capricious. You live in perpetual fear that your creativity will dry up and that your capacity to come up with any more ideas will disappear.
Know Thy Inner Critic
The previous exercises have helped us build awareness as to when our Inner Critic shows up. Now you can more clearly identify your inner critical thoughts when they come up and call out your Inner Critic when it tries to take over your thinking (and you may have even given it a name). You’re starting to calmly observe inner critical thoughts instead of reacting to them, and you’ve become more familiar with the various forms of the Inner Critic.
Now it’s time to go deep.
For our minds to start making the medicine of new thoughts, we need to know exactly what we’re treating.
To start banishing your Inner Critic in earnest, you need to go beyond merely knowing about the different forms of the Inner Critic – you need to know which form plagues you the most.
Purpose: To determine which aspects of the Inner Critic are most relevant to you
Like the Greek mythological hero Achilles, we all have a particular area where our Inner Critic is the most vocal, doing its best to trigger fear and inhibit our behavior to keep us safe. I think of this as our Inner Critic Achilles’ heel.
To see which versions of the Inner Critic are most relevant to you, complete the Inner Critic Achilles’ Heel Questionnaire. Which of the phrases closely describe thoughts you’ve had or have regularly?
Inner Critic Achilles’ Heel Questionnaire
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