Ellenor Cox provides regular insights and advice for supercharging your creative career. They all just happen to start with the letter C. In her last column, she talked about the importance of consistency. Here she identifies the key steps to grow our courage.
When creative people express their emotions through their films, writing or music, and present it to the world, they in effect put themselves on the chopping block to be critiqued by everyone on the planet. It’s bold, it’s brave, and it requires a certain level of self-esteem and courage to be so vulnerable and open to criticism, rejection and even ridicule. After all, how many other sectors do you know where professional critics are gainfully employed?
