You Are Not Your Work: How to Break Free from Fear of Sharing

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Chase Jarvis

Celebrity, Art, Career, Creativity, Money, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education, Careers, Writing, Interview, Investment, Influencer, Business, Photography

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Do you struggle with self-doubt and shame when it comes to sharing your creative work? In this episode, we explore how to cultivate a sharing mindset. Even if we are proud of what we’ve made, we still often feel an overpowering desire to hide. We might drop our work limply onto the floor and slink away, instead of holding it up for everyone to see.

In this episode:

Sharing and Shame [00:00:05 - 00:03:28]
Chase Jarvis talks about the shame that creators often feel when sharing their work and how it can stifle ambitions and creativity. He shares his personal experiences with shame and how he has learned to manage it.

You are not your work [00:03:28 - 00:04:18]
Chase discusses the importance of recognizing that you are not your work and how it can be difficult to reconcile because your work reflects your skills, taste, values, and beliefs.

Managing Shame [00:04:18 - 00:08:06]
Chase shares his personal experiences with shame and how he has learned to manage it. He talks about the importance of nurturing and parenting ourselves, and how meditation can help in coping with vulnerability and shame.

Brene Brown's Technique [00:08:06 - 00:10:26]
Chase talks about Brene Brown's technique of keeping a tiny list in her wallet with just a few names of people who matter most to her. He discusses how this technique can help in coping with shame and the weight of other people's opinions.

Building a Business with a Niche Audience [00:11:23 - 00:12:23]
Chase Jarvis talks about how creators can build a lucrative business by pleasing a tiny fraction of the world.

Developing a Sharing Mindset [00:12:23 - 00:13:32]
Chase Jarvis emphasizes the importance of developing a sharing mindset and putting your work into the world despite the responses from others.

If self-doubt and fear of not being good enough have been holding you back, this one is for you.

Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey there, what's up?
0:05.0	It's your buddy Chase.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Micro Show.
0:09.0	Today's work is a little bit about sharing and the shame that we creators, whether you're creating a business, a painting, you know, some words on a page,
0:22.7	creating anything. It's about the shame that we often have with our work and
0:28.2	largely unnecessary. If we're proud of what we've made, if we've sort of built an audience
0:34.8	around either our work, our body of work, ourselves, our community.
0:41.0	If we built an audience in tune with our ideas and our beliefs, what then is the problem
0:50.0	with sharing new work, regardless of the quality or the nature, the stature of the work.
0:57.4	This audience, these people who are in tune with our ideas, they're going to love what we've got to
1:01.7	offer, right?
1:02.6	Because they are almost by definition, they're in our community because of the work that we do.
1:07.7	They don't have to love everything, but they're certainly going to be open
1:11.4	to the work that we have to offer, right? And yet, we still have a very strong, sometimes even
1:19.7	overpowering desire to hide. Sometimes we're just going to drop this work limply onto the floor and we slink away with our, you know, head down instead of holding it up for everybody to see, right?
1:36.3	It works on the floor.
1:37.8	Our freaking forehead is on the floor and we just slide into the shadows.
1:43.8	But here's the thing.
1:45.1	When you do that, this is shame in action and it's unnecessary.
1:52.8	When you resist sharing whatever it is that you have made, proudly, you're too attuned
2:00.3	to shame.
2:01.3	I wish I had my friend Brenay Brown here with me.
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