Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Procrastinating? Watch this! #procrastination #productivity @mindsetmentorpodcast #podcastclips

3 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue arguing that procrastination is a symptom rather than the root cause: people delay creative action because they fear others’ judgment (often misidentified as perfectionism). The speaker uses an anecdote about discovering a friend’s paintings to illustrate how innate creativity is suppressed by fear, and frames creativity as a spiritual/creator-driven impulse.

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Procrastination is the symptom, but it's not the cause. It's like the downstream effect. Let's say you have a friend. You go over to their house, and you've never been to his house before. You've known him for, like, five years. You go over to his house, and you walk into the garage, and he's got these paintings, and they're just incredible. And you're like, oh, my God, man. Like, these are so good. I didn't know you painted. He's like, yeah, you know, like, it's a hobby of mine. And I'm like, you ever thought about selling these? He's like, no. Well, they're not perfect yet. I'm a perfectionist. Not perfect yet. They could still use a little bit of changing and all of that. And what's really happening is it's not that they're not perfect. It's that he's afraid of something. So what he's. He's afraid of of is most likely not perfectionism. Other people's judgment. We're born creative. All of us have some sort of creativity that we love. There's so many people in this world that are just creatively constipated where they have all of this creativity that's inside of them. And we were put here to create. In the eyes of the Creator, we're literally a piece of God. And God creates, and we're supposed to create as well. And so many people just stop it. Because they're afraid of what other people think of them. Yeah.