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Fundamentally Trustworthy · The Daily Writer

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Writer, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: Much has been written about the voice that lives in every writer's head.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: We normally think and talk about these voices as a bad thing, and there's a good reason for that.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: Many times our past trauma or past hurtful situations or even our plain old bad decisions can crop back up to haunt us decade after decade.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: And those accusing voices are pretty hard to put to rest.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: So it's no surprise that we can think of that voice as untrustworthy.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: But if you listen as closely as you can, there is another voice.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's the one that is telling you that your work is important.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: It's the voice telling you to keep going and to keep sharing.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes it also tells us that our work isn't very good.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: So it helps because it acts as a check against our pride.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Anne Lamotte cautions us with these words.
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  SPEAKER_00: She says, take the attitude that what you're thinking and feeling is valuable stuff, and then be naive enough to get it all down on paper.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: But be careful.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: If your intuition says that your story sucks, make sure it really is your intuition and not your mother.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: So does that mean that our intuition, that voice inside our head that's sometimes hard to hear, is trustworthy?
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's certainly not foolproof, but if we've kept a level head, the voice more often than not is a wonderful guide for us.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: Many artists see themselves as a fundamentally untrustworthy person when it comes to judging the quality of their own work.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we have to pay attention to the market and to our audience, but the first gauge of quality lives right between your ears.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: You must come to see yourself as a fundamentally trustworthy person capable of making good creative decisions.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean that you're perfect or that you never make mistakes, but it does mean that you must learn to trust the voice inside your head that's trying to guide you to success.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 2:11
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• 2:15
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• 2:24
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• 2:38
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.