Let's face it, folks, your conscious mind, that thing between your ears, conscious mind

is a critic.

And if you rely on that critic while you're working, doing anything, certainly anything

for you, but anything that's aspirational, building, something you want

to see in the world, whether it's a career, a life. You lean too much into that. That critic while

you're working, you are going to struggle to make progress. So instead, today in this episode of the Chase Travis Live show on Creative Live,

I got something to share because I don't want to see you get stuck. I want to see you make

progress and I do not want you to rely on that inner critic. Sometimes we think that

inner critic was put there for a reason other than biological. It was put there intellectually to make us

smarter or wiser or it's just not true. That critic is there around survival. How do I fit in?

Right. Well, the reality is fitting in in culture can be a curse because if you want your work, the passion that you have

for life, the way that you apply yourself in life, if you want that to stand out, you know,

you've heard me say this before, you can't both stand out and fit in at the same time.

So there's this

tension right and today's show is about how to break through that critic the mind that we think

helps us and what we know when we step back in most situations when creating creative work, it does not help us.

One of the most exciting and profound breakthroughs that I had personally many, many years ago

and that I revisited in great detail in writing creative calling. If you're new to the podcast, that's my bestselling book

that dropped last September that I'd love to have you check out. But I revisited that breakthrough

that I had in the process for working on creative work in such a way as to ignore the critic, the thing that we think is helping us, but most

often is not.

And the process for managing it, I think there's beauty in simplicity.

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