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It's been two years since @SonySantaMonica 's God of War came out. It's a visually stunning game. I spent a couple of weeks there, pics added.
But while this game was a smashing success. During its making, the team behind it wasn't sure...
But while this game was a smashing success. During its making, the team behind it wasn't sure...
There's a great behind the scenes documentary about it called Raising Kratos.
The creator @corybarlog says something which stuck with me @ 49:51
The creator @corybarlog says something which stuck with me @ 49:51
"Anything that anybody could say on the internet is still tame compared to what goes on inside here. *points at his head*"
It's astonishing just how hard creators are on themselves sometimes. The internet can be a bad, scary, critical place but your head can be scarier.
It's astonishing just how hard creators are on themselves sometimes. The internet can be a bad, scary, critical place but your head can be scarier.
I've known people who, in the face of such crippling self-criticism, either lock up and go through periods of immense mental anguish to get things done. Unfortunately, most perfectionists think like this
A version of this is the Imposter Syndrome where you don't think you deserve your success.
This gets worse the more successful/higher up you go.
This gets worse the more successful/higher up you go.
The author of The Charisma Myth, Olivia Fox says:
"Every year the incoming class of Stanford GSB is asked, how many of you in here feel that you are the one mistake the admissions committee made?
Every year two-thirds of the students immediately raise their hands."
"Every year the incoming class of Stanford GSB is asked, how many of you in here feel that you are the one mistake the admissions committee made?
Every year two-thirds of the students immediately raise their hands."
So the original researchers estimated that Imposter Syndrome hits about seventy to eighty percent of the population.
I don't have a solution to this but just being conscious and knowing that many suffer from this should help you in countering some of this.
Olivia Fox Cabane: The Mental Side of Powerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X13y2KKYdA
