You Need a Sam Gamgee
It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been a creative, Resistance will still fight you. I’ve been creating since I could hold a crayon or a pencil. I have 35-year-old notebooks filled with artwork and short stories. But I still face Resistance on a daily—if not hourly—basis.
There is no defeating it once and for all. It’s a fight you will wage over and over and over again. Consider it part of the creative process.
Judge me by how good my good ideas are, not how bad my bad ideas are
Whoever said there's no such thing as a bad idea was dead wrong.
Some ideas are terrible.
If you really think about it, the life of a successful creative, in its simplest form, is the courage to get through enough bad ideas that you get to the good ones. And you work towards the occasional great idea.