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When self-judgment kills creative play

I want to write silly stories or poems like I used to but I keep thinking about whether they're any good instead of just enjoying making them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The inner critic has become so sophisticated it can murder joy before the first word reaches the page.

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