Be aware of Intimidation Immobilisation.
For me, being able to recognise whenever I am intimidated is an extremely valuable tool. Feeling intimidated differs from eg the cognisant recognition that something is beyond my personal capabilities (for which there are various solutions, like learning or asking for help).
But to me, intimidation is the colour beige with a hint of queasy uneasy green and it feels a little like an impulse to lift the nearest solid object for either personal protection or active combat against a rather indistinguishable adversary…
Too often, it is Intimidation Immobilisation that unnecessarily delays or even prevents us from pursuing new and unfamiliar things, and not our physical lack of skill. Especially as creatives. Like writing a novel or producing a short film or filming a documentary feature.
Fact is, unfamiliarity is directly proportionate to knowledgeable experience. After just one action taken (something as elementary as researching the phrase “how to write a novel”), you accumulate knowledge and experience of something that had seconds ago been 100% unfamiliar. So effectively, for every consecutive action-step thereafter, you are no longer starting from a place of unfamiliarity - but from experience.
Just one tiny, little step at a time… or a big, screaming leap – either is fine, but not neither.
Besides: No system, industry, content structure, or other non-autonomous THING, is more exceptionally Designed than human beings. And you’re a human being.
So, let’s go.
What project will you (re)start today?
MKWiggett
3 October 2020
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