Creative Confidence Is Built in Motion

I loved this quote when I first discovered it in my late teenage years. I intuitively understood it to mean that you get one chance: you need to make up your mind and take it. I created an artwork around it, featuring a disappearing figure. It was, of course, never exhibited. I am still chewing on this lesson. Some parts of it I have managed to uncover; others still feel closed off to me, and I am often too hard on myself for not having achieved them yet. Financial freedom, for example—although that is a constantly expanding term. Or the kind of creative confidence in which I imagine feeling completely comfortable. I have been thinking a lot about creative confidence: where it comes from, whether it can be learned, and why it seems to arrive only after we have already begun.