The Worst Enemy of
Creativity is Self-Doubt...
Do you ever have the
idea that you are alone in the world?
Now you can have
partners and children and parents and friends, but in essence, that living
thing inside your head that speaks exclusively to you is yours alone; it is not
connected to anyone else, it is not heard by anyone else.
It only comes from
you.
All those ideas and
opinions and statements and desires are entirely built by you to shape your
world and you are the only one who can view your world exactly as you see it.
You can share an
opinion with others, but theirs won’t fit yours, it is like placing a round
object into a square hole.
This individuality is
what makes us the beings that we are; it is also the one thing which separates
us, tears us apart, divides us and creates conflict. It would seem to me, and
this is purely speaking from my world here, that rather than celebrate
individual thought, we fear it. Rather than accept that we all think and react
differently, we question it and cause resentment.
I recently watched IT
CAME FROM OUTER SPACE!
A wonderful invasion
movie from 1953, and in it, the main character is questioned and lampooned as
an oddball because he has seen a UFO crash into the desert and no-one believes
him. He is pictured as crazy and shunned by town’s authorities and locals. Now
we know that he has seen a UFO, because we watched him come across it, so we
know he is not crazy, but isn’t this a lesson in life?
For all the oddballs
and weirdos and crazies who see the world in an exciting or dangerous way, you
are that amateur astronomer and writer who comes across the UFO. You’re not
lying, it is society and majority who fear the truth so choose not to
acknowledge it.
Here’s a piece of
dialogue from the movie:
Odd, wouldn't you say,
for something coming in
from outer space?
I don't know what's odd
and what isn't anymore.
But I do know I expected you
to be more open to the idea
than the others.
You're a man of science!
Therefore, less inclined
to witchcraft, John.
Not witchcraft, Dr Snell.
Imagination!
Willingness to believe
there are lots of things that
we don't know anything about.
Look, there was a time when
people thought the earth
was a level plane...
between two mountains
that were set there
to hold up the sky...
and that the stars
were lamps hung from that sky.
Then a better idea
came along and people
were willing to listen.
Be realistic, John. We've
worked together before.
In the meantime, you can
do an article for us.
Reading that, and
seeing it in the movie, tells us that this single guy is the odd one out and
believes in aliens and universes and wonder and imagination instead of facts
and figures and what everybody else thinks. But you can do both can’t you? Add
to that the FACT that he has seen a ship buried within a crater would make
everybody else the crackpots.
You’re not weird; everyone who thinks you are, is.
Leading on to the
quote at the beginning by Sylvia Plath. If you are going through your life
struggling with your place and position, perhaps your job is underwhelming or
you do not feel you are leading the life that you should be, you can change
that. That means using your imagination and listening to that voice in your
head. Yet, the naysayers are there. The town population riddled with fear and
change don’t want you to change.
The town, locals,
authorities are your self-doubt.
Listen to them and
nothing changes, nothing gets prepared, everything stays exactly how it is.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same
thing over and over again, but expecting different results” Einstein.
Self-doubt
will keep you in the same place and is fuelled by the fear. This is all inside
your head and only you have the power to change that because only you have
access to the ideas within your head. If you allow yourself a moment to listen
to your imagination, feel it, trust it and let it lead, you may unearth a
wonder of the universe:
YOU.
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