Fear the Greatest Obstacle

I know I have written about fear before in the blog, but I believe this topic never gets old as far as discussing or thinking about it. In creativity, I think that fear is the biggest obstacle that any person faces. Whether it is fear of starting a project, fear of failure, or even fear of success, all artists or creatives have fear. For me, I fear success more than I fear failure. I am not sure why that is, but it tends to rear it's head when I get going on a project. I have to backburner those feelings in order to actually complete what I started out to do.

If you search the web about fear and creativity, you will get a lot of hits. I think it will always be a hot topic, becuase it happens to all of us at one time or another. But, why do we fear, is it how we are wired as humans, is it a basic instinct, what is the root? I think a lot of the reason I fear things is becuase of my experiences growing up. It is something I know that I must work on daily to move past it. The best thing that I have found for myself is to read about it. I think the more one learns on how to cope with it and mechanisms to help, the easier it gets to manage fear, and even in some cases see that it can be a good thing.