Certainly thought provoking Joe... I believe when we are truly being true to our being we are in fact effortlessly doing what we are meant to do... maybe self doubt etc are signs of misalignment of our inner and outer worlds, or maybe key motivators to being true to our calling and purpose
Thanks for your comment Pauline, and for subscribing to my substack. I think that for some creative people, and writers especially, the self-doubt is a good thing. It keeps us humble and ever questioning and alert to a wider range of human experience. I guess a lot of people who are doing what they're meant to be nevertheless don't find it effortless. Certainly, when you're attuned to yourself you can get into the flow and find it really easy to spend hours upon hours at something and not find the time going. I found that when I was making a documentary for RTE: I pulled whole-nights working at the audio files and it didn't feel like work. I loved it. But you've also got the W.B.Yeats thing of 'A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.' That was from the aptly named Adam's Curse, a reference to the need for labour and hard work and that we must labour to be beautiful or for our writing to be so.
Certainly thought provoking Joe... I believe when we are truly being true to our being we are in fact effortlessly doing what we are meant to do... maybe self doubt etc are signs of misalignment of our inner and outer worlds, or maybe key motivators to being true to our calling and purpose
Thanks for your comment Pauline, and for subscribing to my substack. I think that for some creative people, and writers especially, the self-doubt is a good thing. It keeps us humble and ever questioning and alert to a wider range of human experience. I guess a lot of people who are doing what they're meant to be nevertheless don't find it effortless. Certainly, when you're attuned to yourself you can get into the flow and find it really easy to spend hours upon hours at something and not find the time going. I found that when I was making a documentary for RTE: I pulled whole-nights working at the audio files and it didn't feel like work. I loved it. But you've also got the W.B.Yeats thing of 'A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.' That was from the aptly named Adam's Curse, a reference to the need for labour and hard work and that we must labour to be beautiful or for our writing to be so.