Want to get rid of creative anxiety? Don't try to get rid of it, try the 4-step co-creation method
If no one likes it, has all this work been for nothing? Every time you open a blank document, canvas, or Photoshop, does your heart pound faster than a drumbeat? Or, just minutes after a video is posted, you keep refreshing the data to see if the view count has moved? Congratulations, you're experiencing 'creative anxiety.' This is a common experience almost everyone has. It makes you revise the first sentence repeatedly, adjust every pixel in the image, delay the final deadline, and make you doubt your own worth in the face of others' popularity. We often treat anxiety as the enemy of creation, so we desperately suppress and avoid it, or use longer preparation to cover up that unease. But the truth is quite the opposite: anxiety is not a malfunction, but a signal that you care about your work, your expression, and your growth. Because you will only be anxious about what you truly care about. The problem is never "whether there is anxiety," but "how you deal with it." I tried suppressing it, ignoring it, until later I understood that when you downgrade anxiety from an "enemy" to a "partner," your work actually improves. Next, I will guide you through 4 steps to teach you how to make anxiety lead to signing contracts, acquiring equity, and sharing profits.