[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Confidence]], [[Self-expression]] - Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YIulMVa0WpY --- ## Summary - There is an inherit vulnerability that comes from opening yourself up and wholeheartedly sharing a piece of yourself with the world. - The vulnerability may come from us wanting to know if we did good - **if we ourselves are good**. - One way to avoid fear is to close yourself off. However, this removes the wonder you'll feel from the **fundamentally human experience of expression**, and perhaps the opportunity to inspire others to do the same. - [[If you repress you depress. To impress, you must express.]] - Fear is something that everyone has experienced in some form. - Consider the people and works that have inspired you. Inspiration may not only come from the completed work itself, but also the fact that that work exists in the first place. - Allow and encourage yourself to imagine [[What if]], and start exploring the edges of the **desired path** that you hope to one day walk down. - [[Give voice to the story only you know how to tell]] ## Notes ### Fear of judgment - "For me the biggest fear hands down. what **will other people think about me**?" - "Anytime you try something new, there's this level of vulnerability to it. It's you **you're opening yourself up to be judged by the whole world**." - The vulnerability we feel may come from he feedback we yearn from wanting to know if we did good - if we are good. Wanting to hear an echo from our call. - The lack of confidence may come from a sense of not knowing rather than purely (self) doubt. ### Express yourself - One way to avoid the dreaded feeling of vulnerability would be to chose to never share your work and your story - to never express yourself. To close yourself off from the world and to remove yourself from it. - Your stories, your work, and ultimately, your self expression contributes to the **vibrance** of the world. Self expression is a fundamental facet of what it means to **be human**. To express to connect, and to discover meaning - however it is meaning chooses to manifest. - [[If you repress you depress. To impress, you must express.]] ### Inspiration - Look for the thing that sparks inspiration. It can come externally from the world or internally from yourself. - "The artist that made that song that I'm listening to, that I'm inspired by, **they also at some point were afraid** to release that song or afraid to start making music." - Self doubt and fear are things we all feel at some point or another. But they are things we must overcome if we choose to **walk down our desired paths**. - [[Inspiration creates momentum that drives momentous change]]. ### Overcoming fear - "Because they did the **hard thing** and **overcame** that fear and created that song, it then went on to inspire me." - "All this creativity and artwork is just the result of **overcoming fear**." - Exploration is the initial step to overcoming fear. Open yourself up to trying something new - something you've always wanted to do. Allow yourself to imagine [[What if]]. - "The fear will always be there. It doesn't matter how many videos I've made or how well they perform... I am always scared of releasing every single video I make." - You must ask yourself, ultimately, what is worse? To try and to be judged or to never have tried at all? - [[Give voice to the story only you know how to tell]]. ## Original ![[For anyone afraid to start something new-1.jpg]] ![[For anyone afraid to start something new-2.jpg]] ![[For anyone afraid to start something new-3.jpg]]