{"id":75716,"date":"2022-08-08T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=75716"},"modified":"2026-01-22T21:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:57:59","slug":"stop-seeking-reassurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/stop-seeking-reassurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists and Writers: Stop Seeking Reassurance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why should you stop seeking reassurance? Do you need confidence to be creative?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>The Practice<\/em>, Seth Godin asserts that you don&#8217;t need confidence to be creative. In fact, you should stop seeking reassurance because it only slows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-creative-process\/\">the creative process<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continue reading to learn why confidence and reassurance aren&#8217;t important for creative projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-trusting-yourself-doesn-t-mean-you-have-to-be-confident\"><strong>Trusting Yourself Doesn\u2019t Mean You Have to Be Confident<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Godin contends that you don&#8217;t need confidence to do creative work. Confidence is a feeling, and feelings come and go. If you have a practice of doing creative work regularly, you don\u2019t need to depend on whether you feel confident about the work\u2014you just do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confidence doesn\u2019t guarantee a successful outcome in any event. Every game has confident players who don\u2019t win. <strong>In fact, insecurity is normal and means you\u2019re trusting the process.<\/strong> If you didn\u2019t have some doubt, you could veer into overconfidence or arrogance, which can lead to inadequate preparation and even illegal behavior such as fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-reassurance-won-t-help-you\"><strong>Reassurance Won\u2019t Help You<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/self-trust\/\">Trusting yourself<\/a> also means you need to stop seeking reassurance. Seeking reassurance is not helpful because when you\u2019re in the midst of creative work, you don\u2019t know how it will turn out. For example, if an established writer tells you that a paragraph you wrote is brilliant, that doesn\u2019t mean your whole book will be brilliant. The rest of the book may not meet the same standard. Conversely, if they tell you your paragraph is awful, that doesn\u2019t mean anything about the eventual quality of your entire book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Godin says that reassurance can\u2019t make up for simply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-do-hard-work\/\">doing the work<\/a>. <strong>Reassurance is for people who crave certainty.<\/strong> Successful artists recognize that certainty and attachment to the outcome are inimical to creating art.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One way to stop seeking reassurance is to focus on generosity: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/living-a-life-of-service\/\">serving others<\/a>. This way, you are working toward positive change rather than thinking about yourself and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/your-ego\/\">your ego<\/a>. For example, if you are making a painting in the hopes of challenging entrenched, toxic ideologies (such as racism or sexism), you\u2019re trying to effect positive change, not just focusing on yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fear, Uncertainty, and Creativity<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Artists and writers have long acknowledged the relationship between fear, uncertainty, and creativity. Best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert explains in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/big-magic\/1-page-summary\"><em>Big Magic<\/em><\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/big-magic\/1-page-summary#accept-your-fear\">fear almost always accompanies creativity<\/a> because the purpose of fear is to protect us from uncertainty\u2014and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-creative-process-2\/\">creative process<\/a> is full of uncertainty. Godin evidences a similar take in his advice not to focus on the outcome of creative work because the outcome is always unpredictable and uncertain. Indeed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/fear-of-uncertainty\/\">fear and uncertainty<\/a> are why artists crave reassurance, he says, but they\u2019re also the very reasons reassurance is futile. There\u2019s no way to inject certainty into an inherently uncertain process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilbert acknowledges that she constantly feels fear with respect to her creative work, but she has learned to embrace it and work with it. She does this in a somewhat unconventional way: Before embarking on a creative project, she has a \u201cconversation\u201d with her fear, in which she tells it that she and creativity are going on a road trip and that, while fear is welcome to come along for the ride, Gilbert and her creativity will be the only ones driving the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Gilbert, <strong>creativity doesn\u2019t require fearlessness, but it does require bravery<\/strong>\u2014being scared but doing it anyway. In this sense, her ideas overlap with Godin\u2019s belief that impostor syndrome is normal when you\u2019re doing creative work, and it simply means you\u2019re trusting the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilbert, Godin, and Steven Pressfield all agree that fear is to be expected when you\u2019re involved in creative pursuits. In fact, Pressfield goes a step further and says fear is actually pointing you toward your passion. In his book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-war-of-art\"><em>The War of Art<\/em><\/a>, Pressfield argues that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-war-of-art#when-do-you-feel-resistance\"> <strong>you actually feel the most fear and self-doubt<\/strong><\/a><strong> (which he terms \u201cresistance\u201d) when you get closer to your true calling.<\/strong> Resistance is like a compass needle that always points you to your most important work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why should you stop seeking reassurance? Do you need confidence to be creative? In The Practice, Seth Godin asserts that you don&#8217;t need confidence to be creative. In fact, you should stop seeking reassurance because it only slows the creative process. 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