215: How to Avoid Overthinking Criticism

Creativity and overcoming criticism

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Unrelated: Nurture Your Creativity and Make a Living

It's okay to make money as a creative. Donations, crowdfunding, and selling your creations are all valid options to earn income. Use email to connect with your audience and keep them informed about your work to stay innovative.

A day job provides more than financial stability. It also establishes a routine that allows for daily creative time. To achieve financial security, consider finding a job outside your creative pursuits. Yet, be mindful not to spend too much time working. Do you want to earn an income off your creative hobby or skillset? Do you dream about doing the work you love all the time?

To nurture your creativity:

1. Find a hobby for pure enjoyment.

2. Use the right tools to organize your life and support your creativity.

3. Start with a calendar to track your progress, and aim to have an unbroken line of Xs for every day you work on your creative projects.

4. Embrace the creative influence of other artists and curate that influence.

It's beneficial to share ideas as it can help identify valuable expertise. A helpful rule is only to begin projects that are already 80 percent complete. Success is reliant on using data and thinking. Knowledge is meant to be shared, and hoarding it like gold coins is pointless. 

Off Topic: How to Avoid Overthinking Criticism

The way we grow and move forward is through feedback. We learn from our parents what we should be doing and not. When we are adults, we keep moving forward with our goals by doing specific experiments, gathering insights, and then moving on. Concepts should mean a single thing base on the context in which the concepts are used. We can identify what is required to grow an application with a process that allows quick feedback. 

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