#158: The Seven Ways Your Creative Brain Will Totally Embarrass You

April 27, 2020—If you’re a creative person, your brain is your greatest strength, but it will also try to ruin your life and completely humiliate you. Yay!

#1: Validation Seeking

While your creative brain is too proud to beg for validation, it is not above manipulating other humans into “stumbling” on your work by “mistake.”

When unsuccessful, you may find yourself resorting to increasingly obvious tactics, such as leaving your laptop open on the dining room table, laughing out loud, or the classic “posting work to Facebook and then batch-liking your entire news feed in the hopes of digital reciprocity.”

Solution: Seek your own validation.

#2: Catastrophizing

Anxiety is just creativity flipped upside down and when your carousel of horrors gets spinning, you can start to lose touch with reality.

Despite your best efforts to calm the fuck down, your creative brain pulls you toward Facebook…