UA-36582162-1 Finding the Awesome Within - The Good Fail

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5th Oct 2020

Finding the Awesome Within

Today we want to ask whether our low self esteem is impacting on how well we can do the Good Fail? And what we can do to remind ourselves we're all awesome creations.

DOES LOW SELF ESTEEM EFFECT HOW WE DO THE GOOD FAIL?

Yes, self esteem does effect us doing the Good Fail.

HOW HAS LOW SELF ESTEEM EFFECTED US?

We definitely suffer from low self esteem and this has held us back from opportunities. There is an inner narrative that we will always fail that unconsciously shapes our reality.

SHALL WE INTRODUCE THE CONCEPT OF THE INNER CRITIC?

Tara Mohr’s book Playing Big calls this inner voice our Inner Critic and she has this to say about it: 

We don’t need to have had particular life experiences to develop a harsh inner critic. We’re hard wired for it. The inner critic is an expression of the safety instinct in us - the part of us that wants to stay safe from potential emotional risk - from hurt, failure, criticism, disappointment, or rejection by the tribe.

CAN WE EXPLORE THE LINK BETWEEN LOW SELF ESTEEM AND THE INNER CRITIC MORE?

The Inner Critic is motivated by keeping us safe from emotional pain and in doing so is happy for low self esteem to keep us from taking risks.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO BUILD UP OUR SELF ESTEEM BY GETTING RID OF THE INNER CRITIC?

It is unlikely we can get rid of it completely. Separating its voice from our own is vital and then we can work on building our self esteem.

WHAT CAN WE CONCLUDE FROM ALL THIS?

That by recognising and separating the voice of the Inner Critic from ourselves we can start to build our self esteem which is vital for failure.

WHAT’S OUR RECOMMENDATION FOR THIS WEEK?

Playing Big by Tara Mohr

Still working through this book but the work on the inner critic alone makes it worth reading.

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The Good Fail
A guide from creatives on not giving up.
The Good Fail is brought to you by twin sisters Merle and Abra Hunt, Illustrator and writer/actor respectively, as they navigate life as creators and the struggle to keep going in the face of apparent failure.
Together this is their response to the medias onesided image of success. They're learning to embrace their failure and turn it into a positive, bringing you a different perspective on what it looks like to succeed in the creative business and life in general.



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Abra & Merle Hunt

It started with finger painting, progressed to reams and reams of stick figures, scribbles, mother eating ghosts and anatomically incorrect spiders, grew into days spent in our room creating fantastical worlds we would draw and write about in fastidious detail, blossoming exponentially outwards as all encompassing hobby transformed to dedicated passion, when all school work came complete with intricate borders and full page drawings; we found new ways to express our inner world by breathing life into characters on stage and we counted the minutes we had to spend doing sports and maths lessons like they were hours. Later our creative zeal focused into a three year bachelors degree in illustration and a masters in creative writing, with it all finally culminating in a half finished illustrated novel, launching illustrated stationery business Merle Made Tales, collaborating on commissions for wedding and event stationery, getting the first few paid acting jobs and launching this podcast. One way or another, we were always going to be creators.