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Not Sure if Your Creative Work Is Good Enough?
If you suffer from self-doubt, here is what I want you to know.
I really think many creatives are too bright for their own good. They have high standards, great critical thinking skills and knowledge, but those end up backfiring on them rather than serving them as formidable assets. They overanalyse their work without ever getting certainty about their value. Unlike many other jobs when you know if you have done it to the given criteria, there is no formula, no guidebook to assess creative work.
It doesn’t help that our society showcases artists and successful people as the exception while the media love creating a myth around them, making most of us feeling like outsiders.
“The industrial system works to make you feel powerless. Its message is that you haven’t been chosen, haven’t been given the right talents, aren’t worthy of having a voice.”
— Seth Godin, The Practice
Overthinking, self-doubt and uncertainty about their ability to ascertain what will qualify as good, great or banal work are roadblocks to the only thing that matters: doing the work and putting it out in the world.
