Comments on: The Dumb Stories We Tell Ourselves and What To Do About Them

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By: Johnny B. Truant

Johnny B. Truant — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:07:22 +0000

In reply to Mary Lynn Doyle. Thank you! :)

By: Mary Lynn Doyle

Mary Lynn Doyle — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:45:29 +0000

My little sister sent me your writing and she inspired me to see if I can listen to you and follow your writing and thoughts. how refreshing. I am almost out of power on the IPad. I will seek you out tomorrow. love your way of expressing yourself.

By: Johnny B. Truant

Johnny B. Truant — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 19:36:17 +0000

In reply to ValS. Hmm ... maybe not the most productive form of creativity ...

By: ValS

ValS — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 14:51:42 +0000

I never thought I was very creative. But when you made the connection between catastrophizing and storytelling...wow! You are so right!
I tell myself the craziest stories in my head, and they all revolve terrible things happening to me, or my causing terrible things to happen.

I am indeed very creative when I think of it that way!

By: Johnny B. Truant

Johnny B. Truant — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:20:15 +0000

In reply to Lisa Norman. That's my favorite phenomenon - where you resist and resist ... and then it's no big deal when you finally do it. (And yes, I'm being sarcastic.) Just goes to show that it's truly ourselves that get in the way. :)

By: Lisa Norman

Lisa Norman — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 01:38:39 +0000

Johnny, I needed this today. I was working on a project and I started from a "this is complicated" place. Too little time, too much stress, and so I stayed up most of last night worried about doing it - instead of just doing it. Today I decided that I was going to just dive in. And it was done within a few minutes. I think my favorite part of this was to remember how much FUN writing is. I've been deeply enjoying your art of noticing series.

By: Jenny Hansen

Jenny Hansen — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:15:19 +0000

In reply to Johnny B. Truant. Absolutely, Johnny. It was a pretty big life shift.

By: Johnny B. Truant

Johnny B. Truant — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:11:35 +0000

In reply to Jenny Hansen. I did NOT know that. I can only imagine the perspective shift!

By: Jenny Hansen

Jenny Hansen — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 18:43:17 +0000

Most of the people around here know I just went through a cancer battle. Nothing focuses you more than alligator-wrangling with life-threatening illness.

Post-cancer, most of my normal writer excuses look very pale and easy to step over. It also makes me more self-forgiving about doing what you can when you can.