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counterprodcutive habits

Published about 4 hours ago • 1 min read

From Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act:

Thoughts and habits not conducive to the work:

  • Believing you’re not good enough
  • Feeling you don’t have the energy it takes
  • Mistaking adopted rules for absolute truths
  • Not wanting to do the work (laziness)
  • Not taking the work to its highest expression (settling)
  • Having goals so ambitious that you can’t begin
  • Thinking you can only do your best work in certain conditions
  • Requiring specific tools or equipment to do the work
  • Abandoning a project as soon as it gets difficult
  • Feeling like you need permission to start or move forward
  • Letting a perceived need for funding, equipment, or support get in the way
  • Having too many ideas and not knowing where to start
  • Never finishing projects
  • Blaming circumstances or other people for interfering with your process
  • Romanticizing negative behaviors or addictions
  • Believing a certain mood or state is necessary to do your best work
  • Prioritizing other activities and responsibilities over your commitment to making art
  • Distractibility and procrastination
  • Impatience
  • Thinking anything that’s out of your control is in your way

Pretty good advice for living your Authentic Life, too.

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See you tomorrow and keep pursuing,

JC

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