Do it anyway
View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) It was 1982 and Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox had their backs against the wall.
Their record label had dropped them after releasing one hitless album. They were broke. They had no studio.
They took to a small, dingy attic above a warehouse and with the most rudimentary gear, they recorded “Sweet Dreams (https://youtu.be/qeMFqkcPYcg) (Are Made of This).” They had every reason to think that the music industry had already told them they had no business making records anymore.
They went ahead and did it anyway.
Amanda Palmer wanted to write a book (http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1455581089?keywords=art%20of%20asking&qid=1429367352&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1) about being vulnerable. But she felt Brene Brown had already written one (http://www.amazon.ca/Daring-Greatly-Courage-Vulnerable-Transforms/dp/1592408419/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429367389&sr=1-2) that was better.
She went ahead and did it anyway.
While working on each of her 11 books, Maya Angelou has a little voice in her head saying (http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/220406-each-time-i-write-a-book-every-time-i-face) “uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re going to find me out.”
She went ahead and did it anyway.
When you feel like a fraud, or that you don’t belong, or that your work isn’t good enough, these are just thoughts. Not instinct, not wisdom: thoughts.
They are not rooted in facts but in a myth-making urge that drives all people.
Think about the earliest stories we learn as children: campfire tales of imaginary things. Some meant to delight us, but many involve things that lurk in darkness.
We invent these myths not to have real things to run away from, but to teach ourselves courage.
You have no business convincing yourself of what others will think of you and of what you do.
Your job is to be true to your own sense of good taste and to even surprise yourself by what little you know about what connects with others.
There are many things in life that are worth defying, possibly even more than there are cautions worth heeding.
When it comes to the work, you have already been found out.
You owe it to yourself–to no one else–to run toward what scares you the most.
Very best, Patrick
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