[Watch the video interview on Youtube here]
Film Courage: What is black or white thinking?
Artist, Writer, and Board Certified Coach for Artists & Creatives, Sasha Patpatia: A monkey mind symptom, a symptom of fear or worry. It’s linear thinking, it’s either this or it’s this.
Film Courage: Is this the same as either/or?
Sasha: Yeah, I think it’s the same thing.
Film Courage: What if some people say This linear thinking has served me well. I know don’t cross that street, don’t do this, do that. I want to keep my linear thinking.
Sasha: Linear thinking is not bad and we don’t need to eradicate all linear thinking. For example a conclusion that is true is when there’s a red light, you stop your car at the red light. Let’s not dismantle that one, let’s keep that one for traffic laws and safety but maybe there’s linear thinking in an area of your life where we need to examine it and see if it’s getting in the way of moving you forward.
Again, it’s black or white thinking to think all linear thinking is bad and we need to dismantle it. That’s not true, it’s not bad, it’s just bringing our focus to what is it that’s getting coming up for you or getting in the way of you doing what you love to do, authentically and with ease?
Film Courage: We spoke previously about author Julia Cameron and we both said we love her writing from her book The Artist Way she writes:
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse, this happens in many ways. Beginning work is measured against the Masterwork of other artists; beginning work is exposed to premature criticism shown to overly critical friends [etc.].
Why do artists fall prey to their own negativity and judgment?
Sasha: It’s the fear of success which and the other side of the coin is the fear of failure, those are the same fear it’s what’s going to happen when I make it and what will happen if I don’t make it so how we express that is through harsh analysis of our work because we really want to know if it’s good enough and we really want to know if I should really be spending my time doing this we really want to know am I going to fail at this. When I say we our brain really wants the answers and so we try and try and squeeze water out of a rock by figuring it out by overanalyzing, that’s just what we do, we’re human.
What I always tell my artists I say the process of creation and the process of analysis are two different processes, make sure you keep them separate. We cannot analyze as we create. I think that’s what Julia Cameron speaks to when she says it’s artist suicide, we kill the dream before we even get it out of ourselves.
Film Courage: Another thing she said that I’ve brought up many times before in interviews is that it’s easier to get sympathy and have people like you when you’re a blocked artist, but if you’re actually doing well this might be off putting to people and so sometimes we take that on because we want people to like us…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
About:
Sasha Patpatia is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and board certified coach for artists & creatives. She loves to be around and support the growth of talent, professionalism and people creating beauty for this world. Growing up as a musician, Sasha closely documented her local music scene colleagues through creative writing which led to her first professional opportunity as a freelance music journalist while in College. Upon graduation she segued into artist marketing and national sales roles within independent outfits and major labels in Los Angeles. Drawn to the mysterious and visionary minds of high achieving artists, she worked alongside an elite team of A-list film composers, managing day-to-day business affairs and assembling talented teams of musicians and producers. In working closely with commercially established creatives, she saw that there is a clear discernment between how commercially successful work and personally meaningful work are not always in alignment. With a mission to participate in the arts community in a radically different way than the status quo, Sasha discovered the skill of Coaching and became professionally trained and certified in this new field. Through coaching, Sasha is able to partner with artists and other inspired souls to support them in taking their art and business to the next level. Sasha’s coaching and consulting agency, True Vision Studios, offers bespoke partnership opportunities that enable individuals and creative teams to move past confusion or fear, and into bold, uninhibited productivity. Sasha believes that creative suffering inhibits creativity and produces more angst than art. It takes an immense amount of courage, collaborative support, and the audacity to respect & follow one’s own ideas to realize true creative achievement.
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