Self-censoring. How many times do you notice actively trying to censor yourself while on a creative endeavor, or in your everyday life, doing even mundane things. Will it be good enough? Will they like it?
Aiming for perfectionism and fearing being wrong will just hinder your creativity and achieve the opposite of what you are out to do.
Daily, the pressure of performance and being active and always, in every minute trying to achieve and be productive or else..... is so strong on us. This leaves us no room to breathe and to mess up, to play around.... to experiment a little. You always need to be put together, put up a serious face, I get that idea when I leave the apt and walk around.
For your creativity and true colours to emerge you need to leave room for allowing yourself to not be put together!
The best things will come out of messing up a little!
This is why being mitchy-matchy is considered a style faux-pas :), I sometimes consciously try to stay away from it. Introduce an item that will mess things up, will create disturbance.
In your authentic creative voice there is no room for censorship. Censorship is always the SHOULD force of the outside.
Leave room and allow yourself to step out of the achievement and productivity box, see what happens when you are naturally creative without trying to censor yourself! Allow for mistakes consciously!
* So when you take a photograph, stop and ask yourself if you are trying hard to impress others or are you just enjoying the creative freedom of doing something for the fun of it?
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