Be ready to reclaim your creative confidence
How do you feel? when people start underestimating you because of your less creative confidence. Well, everyone feels Creative confidence and confidence in this way. We all are born creative. As you can see children, they ask always outlandish questions like why birds fly, and why do I eat and many others. they draw some weird picture try to tell, you that they have created a dinosaur.
However, we are living in this ear, where are associated with technology where we are getting a formal education, because of formal education, we are learning to be warier of judgment and more analytical. Now the situation has divided into two parts first creative and non-creative Confidence.
As we know that being creative is a very essential key to get in success in every sector or any discipline. No one can refuse that creativeness has enabled growth and carried on the success of countless companies like Facebook, Snapchat and Google. A lot of people come from a famous university such as Harvard, Sandford, and MIT. But that doesn’t mean, they have a creative mind.
So creative idea come with natural ability. over the past three decades, we are using the same approach to help people transcend the fears that stop our creativity. The way we have learned, break the goal or challenge into small steps and try to solve them. In this way, you will build confidence by succeeding one after another. Creativity, you can learn by practicing. People just care when you have born with creativity. That isn’t true. When you feel less confident always keep in mind this quote.
“Creativity is something you practice, not just a talent you’re born with.”
Now I am going to talk about some major fear that holds you back all the time.
Fear of being judged
This kind of fear that always makes you feel uncomfortable for the rest of your life. As I have mentioned earlier that, children draw some figures and make the name. they don’t care about whether you are judging them or not. However, as we get mature, something we deeply care about it, that’s totally natural. but some awkward teenagers become different, they think if I do this thing what people are going do think about me.
It takes very few years to increase that fear of judgment, but it stays with your whole life. it is not a good thing, because this fear will ruin your life and your career. If you are working somewhere, we are afraid to make a decision because your boss will see it as a failure when your plan gets unsuccessful. That never helps you become creative confident.
“instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.” ~ Dale Carnegie.
The solution could be very easy if you avoid this fear. Because wining battel is all about fear of judgment. So, try to listen to your own intuition and embrace more ideas (good or bad). So how can you do it? well, if you have to become a child, that’s weird sound.
What I am trying to say that take baby steps, if your plan letting thoughts run through your mind, try to do in a symmetrical way, take a notebook. Schedule daily routine and mark on the calendar about your plan. When you are planning to solve the task, create many instead of few. Put off your own judgment believe me you will be surprised by seeing how many ideas you have to solve the task. also, you can use a new language when you give feedback to your collaborators.
Fear of the first step
Just creating an idea is not enough, you have to take the first step. At the beginning time, you become paranoid, because the beginning is very tough it doesn’t matter who you are, if you are starting a new school, first time teaching someone, doing new start-ups and many others. here I am not only talking about just business but also fear of charting a new path or breaking out the expected workflow. If you really want to get rid of this inertial, having great ideas is not enough. What you can do is stop too much planning, go and get started, also, stop focusing on a huge task, break into the little part.
What I want to say that get stared instead of getting ready. If you are going to make the task tiny one by breaking it and forcing yourself do right now. your step will be less daunting, I’m sure you are going to complete the task very easily.
Fear of the messy unknown
Suppose that you are creating a business because you have empathy for those people who are facing specific issues. but you cannot solve the issues by sitting behind the desk. As you know, information comes from a predictable resource.
If you fewer resources you have to deal with so many things such as unexpected finding, uncertainty and some irrational people who always tell you craps. But this time you can get insight and creative breakthroughs. Venture forth in pursuit of learning can help you to get new information and innovate nonobvious needs. Even you don’t have a hypothesis.
Now the question has become how can you feel fearless. You can do some activities like anthropological fieldwork. This activity helps you to get out from comfort zones and into the world. This activity may make feel a little weird. But once you get habitual, you will have less fear.
Overall what I want to say that, you cannot reclama your creative confidence until you take action, I have seen most of the people just make excuse and say this is why I don’t do that thing. fear is just an illusion; you can get over it until you try to break down by taking the steps.
“if you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”~Chinese philosopher Confucius.
