The Power of Creativity \(Book 1\): Learning How to Build Lasting Habits, Face Your Fears and Change Your Life pdfdrive com

I’m Afraid I’m Not Good Enough
Before writing this series, I published two books: A Handbook for the Productive
Writer (now called The Savvy Writer’s Guide to Productivity) and a novella Poor
Brother, Rich Brother.
I am nobody.
While writing the former, I was afraid others would ask, “What right do you
have to explain how to be productive?”
I still think that.
I  also  knew  I’d  spent  hours  researching  productivity  methods  and  studying
how artists work. I’d read dozens of books by authors explaining how they work,
and I knew enough to organise my thoughts into a book.
Even though I am nobody, I gave myself permission to write a book because
we’ve got to start somewhere.
Today,  I’m  afraid  of  hugely  successful  writers  like  Stephen  King,  Neil
Gaiman and J.K. Rowling. They can write or create far more substantial works
per year than I ever could in a lifetime.
King,  for  example,  writes  at  least  one  novel  per  year,  and  his  books  are
hardly thin. Books like The Stand and The Shining are more than 500,000 words
long,  while  J.K.  Rowling  has  created  an  entire  world  that  people  have  made
films about and even created a theme park to bring her fictional world to life.
I wonder, why bother? Shouldn’t I just leave things in King’s and Rowling’s
more than talented hands and stop wasting my time?
If you’re not a writer, perhaps your negative self-talk goes a little a like this:
Why can’t I think of anything creative?
I’ll never be able to think of a unique idea.
I’m too old/too young/not talented enough to learn how to play my

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favourite instrument.
I’m afraid of performing in public because I’ll forget what comes
next.
Let’s fix that.