People can smell it a mile away.

If you're coming from a place that you are not flawed as the same as everybody else,

it doesn't feel safe.

It doesn't, because that person is not being honest.

It's all about truthfulness in art.

And this ground zero place of, yeah, I suck sometimes, but I'm going to do something anyway, is so safe.

It is just the basis of all great moves.

And it's bulletproof.

Nobody can take that away from you.

Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Arts Life podcast.

Today I want to talk about something that feels like it's up for a lot of people.

I'm in lots of Facebook groups and reading what people say on Instagram and just floating

around.

And I'm hearing this theme that it's up right now.

And it has to do with how to believe in yourself, how to hold the belief in yourself

when others don't.

And this is super hard.

And so today I've got four or five ideas around this that I think could be helpful and actually

it could be game and actually could be

game changers for this rather paralyzing situation. First off, the backstory with this,

carrying what other people think, is completely understandable. You know, we're hardwired for community.

I don't know if it came from caveman times when we're wandering over the

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