Psychological
What if your harshest critic is also a liar?
It plays one song on repeat: everything you're doing wrong. Anne Lamott calls this station KFKD (K-Fucked). Left speaker: you're a genius. Right speaker: you're garbage. Both are lying.
If you're not careful, station KFKD will play in your head twenty-four hours a day, nonstop, in stereo.— Anne Lamott, *Bird by Bird*
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The thinker
Writer on Faith, Mess & Grace
Anne Lamott is an American novelist and nonfiction writer known for her honest, funny explorations of writing, faith, and being human.
Based on Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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