Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Coppelman. Thanks for listening. So today's

episode is going to be a little different. There's no guest. I am going to

answer a bunch of questions and talk a bit about the way I approach

living a creative life, living a life where I do this creative work where I'm able to write and

produce work and

produce work and battle fear,

you know, the kind of fear that I hear about

from many of you online.

And when you write me the fear that if I do this work maybe it won't be good

enough or maybe I won't be able to do it. Maybe I'll quit. Maybe the

document won't get finished. Maybe the idea won't come to fruition. Maybe it's

a bad idea. You know we all have these thoughts that raise through our minds.

I've found ways to do the work despite the thoughts. It doesn't mean the thoughts go away.

They don't, but I put a bunch of stuff in place

so that I could do the work.

And through answering these questions,

I hope that I can communicate some of that to you. So let's start and I put the call out on Instagram and on Twitter.

On Twitter we use that hashtag ask be cop and so if you dig

this and you want to ask questions going forward that's how we should do it. So I'm

going to start with a question from Samantha. Her hashtag is love and donuts.

And the question she asks is,

what techniques do you use to help safeguard your creativity

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