Quieting Our Inner Critic
How does our critical inner dialogue affect our creativity, self confidence and other parts of our life? Can we learn to change our self-limiting inner critical voice and use more supportive thoughts...
View ArticleHow Body Image Issues Can Affect Your Acting and Creativity
Body image issues can be particularly acute for people in entertainment careers, and performers are so often icons and role models of appearance. Psychotherapist Mihaela Ivan Holtz helps creative...
View ArticleDeal With Self-Doubt
Many talented and accomplished creative people experience impostor feelings and self-doubt – but those feelings can be changed. “Sometimes I wake up in the morning before going off to a shoot, and I...
View ArticleCreative Thinking and Perfectionism
“I’m a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren’t, I wouldn’t have this company. It’s the best rap!” Martha Stewart added, “I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when...
View ArticleSamuel L. Jackson on pursuing excellence
“Art is the master, I am its slave!” – Samuel L. Jackson From article: Creative Inspiration: Books with Actor Quotes. Another article commented about his drive to be excellent: He is intensely...
View ArticleInsecurity and darkness and comedy
Many talented comedians and comic actors acknowledge there is a dark side to being funny or performing comedy. Parker Posey has commented: “I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other...
View ArticleValuable Creative Lessons from Mistakes
How do you respond to a project that does not really work, perhaps something you choose to abandon? How can we benefit from making mistakes? In her article “18 Things Highly Creative People Do...
View ArticleHow Can We Create More Confidently?
Creating may often include anxiety and other sorts of fear. We need to develop courage and learn how to deal with these feelings to be more fully creative. “Art work is ordinary work, but it takes...
View ArticleMistakes Fuel Creativity and Innovation
What seems to be a setback, error or limitation, may often be valuable for encouraging more creative thinking and innovation. Valerie Young writes about two “mistakes” that resulted in very successful...
View ArticleCan Envy Get in the Way of Your Creative Career?
Anne Hathaway once commented about being highly sensitive and comparing her career as an actor to another artist: “I cry terribly easily…I was reading an article about Kate Winslet in Vogue, and I love...
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