Category: Personal Development

  • Criticism

    “If you’re not your own worst critic, you’re probably not very good.” This is a quote I’ve been telling people for years, though in all honesty it’s always been more of a reminder to myself than anything else. I started saying it when I was in school, surrounded by creative people for the first time,…

  • You Can Do Anything Except That

    Some of the most disciplined people I can think of are fiction writers. To assign yourself the task of producing hundreds of pages of compelling original content — consistently, on a schedule, while also being your own harshest critic — seems like it would require not just a creative muscle but a kind of self-discipline…