Archive for February 2022

I’ve always been a little envious of people who create without a lot of focus on refinement. They create without thinking about it too much, reveling in the process, maybe working a bit haphazardly but almost always with immense joy. I, on the other hand, want everything to come out of me perfectly formed. It’s…

Two of the biggest joy killers for creative work have got to be self-criticism and striving for perfection. So the question is, why are we being so critical of our work and why do we feel the need for it to be perfect? I think they both come down to some version of worrying about…