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When creative avoidance disguises itself as productivity

I spent four hours today arranging my studio instead of working and now I am lying here knowing I did it because the blank canvas feels impossible

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind creates elaborate rituals to protect itself from the vulnerability of making something that might fail.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined creative life — Murasaki's synthesis?”

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