My best friend and I started a podcast together because we have amazing conversations, but now that we're recording them our natural rhythm is gone and we both feel like we're performing ourselves. Every episode feels more forced and we can't figure out how to be authentic when we know people are listening.
More people experience this than they realize.
The awareness of audience has corrupted the organic creative chemistry that was the foundation of the collaboration.
“Where Are You with Creativity as spiritual practice?”
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