The Greater the Artist, the Greater the Doubt

The more you know, the less certain you feel. Tracing into 'the unconscious why' of some of the most skilled, well-practiced people can't seem to make a move - while someone who finished a weekend workshop is already offering their work on Monday. Socrates' not knowing, a storyteller's map of the "mountain of bullshit" and the "valley of death," and a line from a gym owner in Boston that reframed something for me when starting my gym in the early 2010's: "the greater the artist, the greater the doubt: complete confidence is granted to the less skilled as a consolation prize."