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Overcoming fear

Overcoming fear

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Overcoming fear

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- [Instructor] Athletes hire psychologists to help them tackle the mental aspect of their game. So if a mental quirk can destroy a sports star or indeed make them capable of winning again, why don't artists take that aspect of their lives just as seriously? So if anything the psychological field for writers, musicians, painters, is absolutely critical to their success. Now I've seen really really good artists and designers totally crippled by something as ethereal as an insecurity complex. And in really bad cases, they can be unable to work on their own projects. Maybe this same person if they go to work in a studio where the work is within a team project, they're fearless and they go in, they'll happily do their work, but when they go home at night and they're looking at their own personal project, suddenly they freeze up or they leave the work half finished or never begun at all. Because the problem is the second they release that work, they themselves are to be judged. Now it's…

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