How to Keep Creating When Your Inner Critic Says You're Worthless

About this episode

Foster shares her creative process and the challenges of self-doubt while Cesar discusses the balance between inspiration and self-criticism.

Struggling with creative block or self-doubt as an artist? In this episode, Foster breaks open her creative process behind writing and publishing Afternoon Abundance in just 9 months, from blank page to published book. Cesar explores the double-edged sword of being a creative person and the battle between inspiration and self-doubt. They lay out the three pillars every artist needs: time for nothing (unstructured creative time), "this too is honey" (transforming experiences into art), and the...

People in this episode

Host: Cesar Cardona

Guest: Foster

Topics covered

• creative process
• self-doubt
• artistic inspiration
• creative block
• personal growth

Keywords

• creative block
• self-doubt
• Afternoon Abundance
• artistic process
• inspiration

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Afternoon Abundance

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