# The Creative Mind

What’s the best music to mainline to your brain to propel you into that mental space?

Fear of change, fear of failure, fear of … success. All of it paralyzes emotional growth—and wastes time.

"You don't have to stay in a place that doesn't love all of you."

It’s about being an artist, being a human, and being alive.

In fact, mistakes are actually tools that lead you to where you need to be.

The countdown of my life was ticking louder and louder each day.

Forget pressure—it felt taboo to dislike anything.

The half-written page in front of my eyes turns to black and mocks me like a childhood bully who knows just the right pairing of words to scar me for an entire summer.

For the briefest of moments, I thought I’d made it. I was so proud of my achievements. Of course, the joy didn’t last forever.

It’s endless. And constant. You hear "No" way more than "Yes."

Erica Davis spills the beans on the quick and dirty hacks that help her focus when writing.

Everything is madness, and we can’t help you anymore.

Can you fully unlock your imagination if your mind is obsessed with success?

Did you catch that? “Mediocrity is … unacceptable.” And if this were the case, or the perception in 1873, how much more does this apply today?

After three decades of dreading revision, writer and editor Erica Davis reveals how she came to kind of not hate revision since receiving her ADHD-Inattentive diagnosis.