Why Your Inner Critic Is Your Best Friend
Are you constantly going to battle with your Inner Critic? It doesn't have to be that way. Learn how to respect your Inner Critic, while still keeping him in line.
Are you constantly going to battle with your Inner Critic? It doesn't have to be that way. Learn how to respect your Inner Critic, while still keeping him in line.
The Inner Critic gets a lot of bad press, especially among blocked creatives who wish the nagging critical voice at the back of their mind would disappear. No wonder there's so much creativity advice on how to banish, silence, or obliterate the Inner Critic. By the time the creative thinking gurus are done, the Critic's had a tougher pounding than an extra from Kill Bill.
The Inner Critic isn't the enemy, just an over-zealous friend who's delivering the criticism too forcefully and without considering your feelings. We all have friends who do that from time to time.