The Creator's Block
You never see people getting a talkers block. As in, no one wakes up in the morning and discovers that they have nothing to say and hence sit quietly for days together.
Why do we have creator’s block then?
Why we don’t care about “Talkers block”
- Talkers block is non-existent because we’ve trained ourselves to speak irrespective of whether we have something to say.
- We rarely think about a conversation coming back to haunt us.
- All talk is cheap, and can easily be denied.
We talk poorly and eventually (and sometimes) we talk smart. We get better at articulating because we talk more.
If we blurt out something useful, we try to talk more about things that worked. We follow a pattern.
The creator’s block is no different
Just create poor stuff.
- Write poorly in public until you can write better
- Produce poor pieces of art until you can produce good pieces
- Write bad poetry until you churn out a good one.
I believe that every single person should produce something they’re passionate about. An art. A social media post. A video. Whatever floats your boat.
If you know you have to create something in consistent intervals, even a single line/tweet/art, you will improve what you do.
To borrow Seth’s words
The second best thing to zero is something better than bad.
If you know you have to produce a video tomorrow, you'll already start working on something better than bad.
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