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Overcoming mental blocks

Overcoming mental blocks

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Overcoming mental blocks

- [Instructor] In a previous movie, I spoke about fear and the problems of dealing with fear. One of the things that can result from this kind of toxic atmosphere is that you can end up with a creative block. I had a really horrendous one at one point early on in my career in animation. To give you an idea about how bad it was, I would put a drawing on the drawing board, and I would begin to draw, and I would draw about this much. My body would physically lock up. It was like a fist was clenching inside my stomach because I just knew that no matter what I did following this, it wasn't going to be good enough. It was the most horrible feeling, so I know what a writer feels like when they say they have a mental block or a writer's block. You're just caught up on this thing in your head, a loop that doesn't have a beginning or an end that says you're not good enough, you're not good enough, you're not good enough. I was within maybe two or three weeks of just walking out of the studio so…

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