I think we all walk around sometimes feeling less than.

And you start to believe this because you feel something, you start to believe it.

And this is what's dangerous.

If you feel like and you start hanging out with the idea that you don't like your work or that it's not good,

then you think because you're your art, that you're not good, all of this.

Hey, welcome back you guys to the podcast.

Thanks, by the way, for all those great comments and thoughts on last week's Your Brain

on Art, interview with Susan and Ivy.

For those of you guys who haven't listened to that, go check it out. It's amazing.

I'm still reeling from that and all the information that was shared that day.

I wanted to talk to you today about objectivity and this idea that or the tendency to think that

we are our art and the problems that arise from that.

So there are some benefits to being objective, to having objectivity.

And this has been something that has helped me so, so much,

and something that I coach a lot on with artists.

And I see it in our programs, I see it in destination workshops. It's a sort of loose hold of your art when you're making it.

It's a kind of, you know, if you're white knuckling it and you're really attached, really attached, it's almost impossible to make something that is like yourself because that isn't really who you are. It's almost the clinging

version of you. And of course, you know, in destination workshops, there's always this nervous

energy. People come and they want to be successful. They've come all this way. And there's this

sort of pressure. And it's usually the first day or two there's some rough patches that

people work through and then they kind of get over it and they get to the business and get more

relaxed and not so worried about it. Welcome to Art to Light, a podcast for the Creatively Curious.

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