The Creative Mind

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
Sylvia Plath

Nice thought, but what we really want to know is the enemy of self-doubt. If we could conquer self-doubt, then we’d all be creative.

This quote doesn’t explain Emily Dickinson for me, the great American poet who lived a reclusive life, wrote extensively about death, and only had a few of her 1,800 poems published before she died. Her sister found the poems amongst her personal effects, and brought them to the light of day. I think it’s a fair leap to say that Emily had some self-esteem issues. History is replete with highly creative self-doubters. Good quote otherwise.

I have no doubt that this is a creative entry.