Recognizing performance anxiety

Self-sabotage can be a hidden form of performance anxiety, e.g. a dancer who can’t ask her teacher to recommend her to a dance company.1 Steven Pressfield calls this Resistance.2

  1. Performance Anxiety pg. 9 ↩

  2. The War of Art ↩

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Fear is a part of the creative process
Fear is a part of the creative process ![[The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek]]