I don't know who needs to hear this but someone recently told me "no amount of waiting will make you more brave, and no amount of worrying will make it more safe." And honestly I think about this everyday.
Normalize being very direct, very straight to the point and very assertive. A surprising amount of tension in adult life exist because people avoid saying what they actually mean.
Erasing pre-debut work has become more common—particularly for artists signing to labels, where cultivating an origin myth with no rough edges is often treated as a good strategy.
@oklou_ sees it differently, framing years of "imperfect" work not as liability but as "part of the process" and of course, normal.
(via @BBC6Music)
The neurodivergent ick when you realize mid-convo that correcting them is pointless because they'd need self-awareness and emotional intelligence to even process that they're wrong.