When you're doing something creative - writing, painting, composing, etc. - and impostor syndrome kicks in ... do it anyway. Let the creativity flow here and now regardless. Edit, polish, and perfect later.
What you do today might feel like it's the worst and dumbest part of your overall work that you've ever done. But keep going. Look back at it another day and evaluate it when you're more emotionally distant from it, and in a different headspace than today.
To plagiarize a certain sports brand: Just do it.
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jozsef:
Very good advice. When you look at the amount of time that goes into revising the initial garbage that becomes an award winning work, you can see that it's about persistence and refusing to stop until you reach the level you intended. "I can't do it" is how you short circuit that process. I can write a pretty good paragraph once a year. The rest of the time, it sucks donkey balls and needs repeated tedious revisions just to even make any sense. Very humbling.Ā š
ojtheviking:
@jozsef Spot on, brother. I appreciate this feedback so much!