In her wonderfully honest book A Broom of One’s Own, writer Nancy Peacock talks about the importance of containment for giving birth to the stories inside us. Frittering away our energy in talking about them before our stories are ripe to share almost guarantees that they won’t see the light of day.
Peacock says: “Stories want to be born, but they aren’t attached to the form that they take. A story is just as content to be told orally as it is to be written. If I go around telling it to everyone, it’s happy and gone. The tension is over. Talking about a work in progress to anyone but the most carefully chosen people is a death knell.”
I think this goes for any creative work – using up energy in discussing the work before there is anything solid to discuss – stalls the creative process and runs us aground.
What do you think? Is there any creative project that suffered because you shared it too soon?
Ritu Kaushal is the author of the book The Empath’s Journey, which TEDx speaker Andy Mort calls “a fascinating insight into the life of a highly sensitive person & emotional empath.”
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