How to Manage an Overactive Imagination
Creative people have to deal with thoughts differently.
To be a successful athlete or writer, you have to be a bit delusional.
If you’re me, about 10 minutes before the picture above was taken, for example, you have to look at your 175 pound self in the bathroom mirror (after you take your last nervous pee), recognize that you’re about to compete against a guy who probably weighs around 50 pounds more than you, and then go out and compete anyway with full belief that you will win.
If you do not have the ability to develop this belief, you can kiss your chances of victory goodbye.
If you’re a writer, you have to convince yourself that what you have to say is valuable. You have to convince yourself that in a world with nearly 8 billion people on it, your perspective is for whatever reason going to be the thing that people are going to click on and read.
What are you, crazy?
Successful “creativity” is the intersection between fantasy and reality. To do anything well, you must have mental stability and peace, but when you have an active imagination, this can be a challenge.
This is the process that I use to work with my imagination to create the best reality possible for me to live in.
