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Why bother? Giving Yourself Permission

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    The article discusses the 'horrible homunculus' of self-doubt that plagues creative people - this psychological phenomenon of feeling like a fraud despite evidence of competence is directly relevant to understanding why creatives struggle to give themselves permission to create

Why bother? Giving Yourself Permission

By Kathy Fish

“The truth is that virtually anybody who is trying to do anything worthwhile at all, especially creatively, has seated in his or her brain, a horrible homunculus that blows a dreadful little trumpet,…

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