Your Inner Critic Is A Big Jerk with Danielle Krysa
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Danielle Krysa is the author of Your Inner Critic Is A Big Jerk, Creative Block, and Collage, all published by Chronicle Books. She is also the creator of the contemporary art blog The Jealous Curator.
Danielle gave a talk at the CreativeLive studios on the Inner Critic, and shares a particular story that I think many of us can relate to. We all deal with the voice in our life that tells us what what we’re creating is not good, will never amount to anything, or how we’ll never make any money from it. This talk is a huge inspiration for anyone who’s suffered a creative block and battled critics (internal or external). I know you will love Danielle’s vulnerability and break through your creative battles with the tactics she has garnered from her personal struggle and prolific creators, alike.
She references her keynote a bit through this talk, so if you want a bit more context be sure to watch the full episode in full living color on CreativeLive https://cr8.lv/2vsQg8d
In this episode,
- Your inner critic is a lazy bully. There are only 4 techniques that it has to put you down, and you can fight each one of them with the right tools.
- The three techniques professional artists use to fight their inner critic: they dedicate specific energy towards creating whether the work for the day ends up in the Met or in the trash, they create time and space for their work, and they learn to trust their inner voice to guide them towards their best work.
- Why you need to translate and rewrite your inner critic’s script from phrases like “you’re going to fail, so don’t bother trying” to “I’m going to fail like all the prolific geniuses before me have failed.” Onward.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's me in your ears. How you doing? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis live show here on Creative Live. I am very happy to be with you today. Pumped, in fact, because we have a show in store for you that you can't miss. It's a no miss episode, and it's because it's about mindset. |
| 0:25.7 | You've heard me talk a lot about tactics and about how you want to do this and that, and |
| 0:28.9 | that the show needs to be full of not just inspirational humans doing cool stuff, but |
| 0:34.8 | actually tactical advice. |
| 0:37.1 | And one of the things that I think is a little bit underrepresented on the show is mindset. |
| 0:43.2 | So my guest today is Danielle Crissa. |
| 0:46.9 | She is the author of the book. |
| 0:49.3 | Your inner critic is a big jerk. |
| 0:52.2 | That's right. |
| 0:52.8 | That's the title of the book. |
| 0:54.3 | And, you know, if I give you that title, that starts to help you understand, I think, |
| 0:57.7 | where this particular show today is going. |
| 1:00.2 | And it is towards to bring up that mindset word that I used earlier, how mindset is so critical |
| 1:06.2 | to success in any field. |
| 1:08.4 | And by extension, part of our mindset is that voice that we use to talk to |
| 1:13.6 | ourselves, is that voice loving and supportive and helpful or is it a big jerk? And in this case, |
| 1:22.6 | I think we can all identify with that voice being a big jerk at some point or another. And the goal of a strong |
| 1:30.5 | mindset is to only listen to the stuff that we really need to hear the stuff that's going to help |
| 1:35.7 | you in what it is toward which you endeavor. I'm going to give you a little bit of background on what |
| 1:40.5 | you're listening to. So this is a talk from Danielle Krista, and Danielle gave this, |
| 1:46.5 | I'll call it, it's almost like a talk, it's a keynote, it's on Creative Live. It's an amazing, |
| 1:51.9 | I'll call it episode, it's not really a class, but it's a talk that is so focused on this |
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