How do you face your fears?
I am a creative person. I write prose and poetry, and I have won a poetry prize that meant a lot to me. I am a passionate actor. I love the process of creating a character and breathing life into the playwright’s words.
Yet I am riddled with fear about the creativity that I love. Some of it stems from the idea that I might not be good enough, which is a misuse of perfectionism.
I know one way of facing this fear is to write something everyday whether it be a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter or a poem. Another way is to audition for as many plays as I’m able and to relax in the audition process.
What fears do you face? How do you manage those fears? Do you move through them or around them or over them?
Do you have fears about your passions?
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Giving public speeches was and still is my most unfun thing to do. I prepare, then prepare some more….review what I prepared, maybe ask another what they think of my preparations and then prepare even more. I usually pull things off without a hitch that way.
In essence I over prepare and thankfully there are very few things I am afraid of so I don’t have to go through that stressful strenuous process often.
I used to hide and avoid them, now I know I have to reinforce myself mentally, then face them.
Also, realizing and embracing that there are things that I cannot control (which is where most of my fears come from,,,death, rejection, etc) and that helps.
Good for you in all your progress, putting yourself out there creatively is tough. Be confident and never apolgize for your work!!!!
Head on, except when I’m too afraid. And that’s not meant to be a joke. I spend a lot of time these years trying to face and work through the things that scare me including personal insecurities, flying, health, asserting myself at work, and on and on. Sometimes the head on approach works great, at least temporarily, and sometimes I just have to find a way around the fear that still allows me to keep my self respect. Either way, it takes constant effort.
I am deathly afraid of heights if I’m a couple feet up it looks like a hundred feet. If i look over a ledge i feel like i’m going to fall.
When i turn 18 i’m facing my fears by jumping out of a plane.
I’ve heard from several different sources that 10,000 hours off effort equals mastery of your craft. So, no matter the quality or reception of my work, I keep going. Since you seem to have talent and passion for your work, that doesn’t seem like it would be impossible . . .
I take it one step at a time. I was told, that in order to be successful, you have to get out of your comfort zone. To me failure is an option, if you learn from it.
Meet it head on! Just doooooooo it!! I am in a creative profession and I think the best thing to so is to just do something!
Shego’s answer is dead-on :)
Through a cynical, chemical ridden, alcoholic haze.
I think a better way to deal with fear is to not see it as something outside of oneself. It’s not something one can face or fight, it’s something one must accept as being a part of themselves. It’s like when you need to vomit because you are ill; when one accepts that the poison is in them, the body does the work and purges. Accept the fear, let it fill you, don’t excite it or indulge in it, just let it in so that it may flow through. Our brains know what to do with fear, if we just let it happen it sorts itself out. It may not bring comfort, but it will allow clearer thought. That’s been my experience anyway.
I’m afraid I don’t know. I greatly fear I can’t help with this questions, because I am so afraid of fear I don’t have any.
@ETpro : I’m afraid you may be right.
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