Perhaps the single most limiting factor to our ability to create is our belief that we are not the creative “type.” In this important article, Douglas Eby works to dispel the myths of creativity that hold us back from our own creative potential. Let go of the myths and bring us your creative gifts! Creativity is your birthright!
As creative people, even after achieving some recognition for our talents, we can experience self-critical thoughts and insecurity, such as impostor feelings – sometimes based on these kinds of myths we have picked up about creative “genius” or artists.
Director, writer and producer Jane Campion, praised for “The Piano” and other films, once commented, “I never have had the confidence to approach film making straight on. I just thought it was something done by geniuses, and I was very clear that I wasn’t one of those.”
For Douglas Eby’s full article see, “Myths of Creativity and Creators – How They Hold Us Back.”