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A Black Entrepreneur in 2021 with Performance Anxiety

By Jasmine RuKim

This is me, 90% of the time. The other 10% is often filled with performance anxiety and unrealistic standards of perfection.

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Mastering Creative Anxiety: 24 Lessons for Writers, Painters, Musicians, and Actors from America’s Foremost Creativity Coach

In his decades as a psychotherapist and creativity coach, Eric Maisel has found a common thread behind what often gets labeled “writer’s block,” “procrastination,” or “stage fright.

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Eric Maisel
2011
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Performance Success: Performing Your Best Under Pressure

Performance Success teaches a set of skills so that a musician can be ready to go out and sing or play at his or her highest level, working with energies that might otherwise be wasted in unproductive ways. This is a book of skills and exercises, prepared by a master teacher.

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Don Greene
2001
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5 Types of Imposter Syndrome

Learn more about Imposter Syndrome.

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2020
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Ant Clemons on BIPOC Men’s Mental Health

The Jed Foundation (JED) exists to protect the emotional well-being of our nation’s 75 million teens and young adults and prevent suicide.

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2021
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Mental Health Is Declining and Black Women Are Hit the Hardest | Keita Joy | TEDxBeaconStreet

Did you know that in the United States, over 10.3 million adults have serious thoughts of suicide and/or battle with mental health struggles privately while continuing to produce and perform publicly? Imagine living with a constant, lingering private struggle, while performing in front of the world.

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2020
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Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

In this New York Times bestselling “imperative how-to for creativity” (Nick Offerman), Adam Savage—star of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters—shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully making your idea a reality.

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Adam Savage
2020
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Embracing Your Inner Critic: Turning Self-Criticism into a Creative Asset

The inner critic. It whispers, whines, and needles us into place. It checks our thoughts, controls our behavior, and inhibits action. It thinks it is protecting us from being disliked, hurt, or abandoned.

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Hal Stone, Sidra Stone
1993
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Banish Your Inner Critic: Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt to Unleash Your Creativity and Do Your Best Work

Are you ready to boost your personal productivity—minus the fear and loathing? Are you ready to Banish Your Inner Critic and unleash the creative ideas and personal productivity within you? Help is on the way! Blocked creative ideas.

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Denise Jacobs
2017
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Stop Being a Perfectionist

From artist Ryan Kao: I’ve been stuck in a creative rut for nearly a year. It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally decided to let go of my perfectionism and start doing what I love again. Thank you Chace McLees for helping me create this.

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2019
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Why Most Entrepreneurs Are Slowly Killing Themselves | Phil Drolet | TEDxMileHigh

Can we actually accomplish more by working less? Does the success of our modern icons hide a self-destructive culture? In this persuasive talk, Phil Drolet contrasts the lifestyle of our most famous and celebrated entrepreneurs with one that draws on the training and life patterns of rock stars,...

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2014
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BIPOC Well-Being