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The Daily Mess Why Do Creative People Have Anxiety Plus Can Daily Writing Help · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Here's the question today, why do creative people feel so
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  Speaker 1: much anxiety? Plus? If more people invested in creative writing,
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  Speaker 1: would there be less anxiety. My name is Arrow. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a daily writer, a silent wolf. That means I stand
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  Speaker 1: on the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen, study,
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  Speaker 1: than activate. I happen to call it the daily Mess
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  Speaker 1: because it's a chronological walk through an everyday world. It
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  Speaker 1: is is my daily writing as a receiver of thoughts
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  Speaker 1: and ideas. We as people tend to throw things to
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  Speaker 1: the side because we're convinced that we're gonna come back
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  Speaker 1: to it later on. How's that working for you? You
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  Speaker 1: doing good with that? When a subject arrives inside of me,
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  Speaker 1: I know it is time to dig in. It's still
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  Speaker 1: keeping that daily journal, but by asking the questions and
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  Speaker 1: doing the research, that picture actually becomes clearer. This is
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  Speaker 1: the daily mess. Why do creative people feel so much anxiety? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's no hidden secret. Those who lead a creative life
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  Speaker 1: feel like their minds are working over time, making them vulnerable.
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  Speaker 1: But creative people do not have a monopoly on the
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  Speaker 1: anxiety department. Creative people thrive on imagining things possible. It's
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  Speaker 1: the same mental flexibility that helps another person invent a story,
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  Speaker 1: a song, or a brand new idea sounds great right
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  Speaker 1: until the same creative monster imagines a worst case scenario,
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  Speaker 1: which I tend to call writing a story before it happens.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually called divergent thinking. The mind is constantly branching
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  Speaker 1: out in every frickin' direction. Creative people are highly sensitive,
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  Speaker 1: their identity is tied to their output, and perfectionism is
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  Speaker 1: a macdaddy abuser when it comes to mental space. The
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  Speaker 1: lowering of your anxiety should include setting constraints. Do small
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  Speaker 1: jobs separate creativity from judgment, and build routines not chaos.
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  Speaker 1: Build routines not chaos, and could some of those routines
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  Speaker 1: actually include writing a daily writing project. We'll answer that
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  Speaker 1: coming up next. Hey, welcome back to the Daily Mess.
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  Speaker 1: If more people invested in creative writing, would it actually
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  Speaker 1: lower our anxiety? But the good news is it will
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  Speaker 1: lower anxiety, but it's not a guaranteed cure. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: there have been times where it has stirred things up
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  Speaker 1: higher than stirring things down. As a creative person, keeping
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  Speaker 1: a journal will help with emotional processing because the goal
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  Speaker 1: is to turn vague feelings into something that has structure.
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  Speaker 1: Writing also gives you a sense of control. It's on
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  Speaker 1: the paper, but it's still control. I mean, you decide
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  Speaker 1: what happens. Writing leads to mental offloading to reduce mental clutter.
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  Speaker 1: And we can't forget about the physical act of getting
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  Speaker 1: our thoughts deeply engaged, which invites our brains to be
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  Speaker 1: what focused in on a different state, which temporarily lowers
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  Speaker 1: our anxiety level. There are four things I would love
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  Speaker 1: for you to study. Number one, write freely without editing.
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  Speaker 1: I call it stream thinking, freeform writing. Just write freely,
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  Speaker 1: go in there as a judger. Number two, don't aim
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  Speaker 1: for good, shoot for honesty. That's so important. I remember
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  Speaker 1: Lynn paying from Barnes and Noble when I was on
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  Speaker 1: the tour for two and a half years, and she
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  Speaker 1: would say, quit telling people to lower their standards, and
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  Speaker 1: I would go, Lyn, look it over there. They all
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  Speaker 1: think they are writing superstars right now and they're pissed
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  Speaker 1: off at the world because they're not getting published. You're
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  Speaker 1: telling me that I can't go in there and say
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  Speaker 1: bring it down just a little bit. You are already good.
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  Speaker 1: We know that you're good. But don't think of yourself
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  Speaker 1: as being this brilliant substance, because even the best of
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  Speaker 1: the best of the best of the best, do not
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  Speaker 1: think that. Just kind of be more honest with your
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  Speaker 1: daily writing and set a time limit usually maybe I
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  Speaker 1: usually do ten to thirty minutes a day in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: and that's it. That's it. How long does it take
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  Speaker 1: you to walk into the bathroom, take your shower, take
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  Speaker 1: a pee, dry off, do your hair, put your makeup on,
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  Speaker 1: or do whatever you're gonna do, and get out longer
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  Speaker 1: than a half hour you could have been writing. So
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  Speaker 1: make you shift from venting to reflecting. That is so
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  Speaker 1: important because in my writing, all the way back to
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  Speaker 1: July of nineteen ninety four, I have vented a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and I have felt like crap a lot, because, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, when you're on this page, you are in control.
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  Speaker 1: So if winning is a choice, then your choice is well,
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  Speaker 1: you can either vent or you can reflect. You can
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  Speaker 1: learn from this stuff. I'm MARYL. And that's the daily mess.