Excerpted from J. Michael Dolan’s Blogs & Stories | The Search for Barenaked Integrity…
WAY OF THE CREATIVE WARRIOR (read time :27)
Your plight is no different than any other successful artist or entrepreneur who consistently questions and doubts their own abilities, and who is also confronted every day by the armies of distraction, resistance and fear. This is a forever challenge for those who are creative and talented, and it will never end. If you had chosen plumbing, you wouldn’t be reading this—you’d be under a house fixing a leak and making a decent living (perhaps). However you chose the road less traveled, the path of the creative warrior, and creating great art always takes place on the “inner” battlefield——ask any successful artist or entrepreneur.
