It sounds simple, but it’s shockingly powerful: Deconstruct Emulate Analyze Repeat DEAR for short.

The creative path is difficult enough; why couldn’t we help one another learn and grow?

The only thing that matters is that you take action. Start creating. The burden of tamping down your creativity every minute of every day is exhausting. It makes you sick, sure—stress and anxiety have proven negative health consequences—but it also drains your soul.

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Some of these deficiencies can be addressed through strategy or hard work. Chances are, however, that there’s a hole inside of you that will never be filled. Until you change your mindset, you will never be satisfied with your creative work—or your life.

When we’re open, we’re evaluating the possibilities and looking for ways to fit the pieces into a cohesive whole. When we’re closed, we’ve got our nose to the grindstone and we’re actively driving toward completion.

as well as my creative idols do? Impostor syndrome almost certainly plays a role.

As a Resister, you are stubborn, pragmatic, rational. These are phenomenal attributes when facing down a creative challenge. Once you escape your limiting beliefs, there will be no stopping you.

We’re born with a reservoir for doing this, a dense little chunk of creative plutonium. This reactor contains more than enough fuel to power our creativity for a lifetime. In fact, the more you use its power, the more of it is available to you. But, like plutonium, creativity is dangerous. All that energy has to go somewhere. It must be released th