WE’RE ALL IN THE SAME ANXIETY-RIDDLED BOAT. A blog about understanding and overcoming creative fear. 

A while ago I bought Elizabeth Gilbert's "Big Magic", a book that is all about living a creative life beyond fear. I have never started reading it, partly - funnily enough - out of fear that it won't help me overcome my creative fears. The irony. So, I pushed it away and forgot about it. Until I picked it up again recently.

I would like to present to you a little excerpt where Gilbert lists a bunch of the fears that most of us encounter the moment we start flirting with the idea of leading a more creative life.

You're afraid you have no talent.

You're afraid you'll be rejected or criticised or ridiculed or misunderstood or - worst of all - ignored.