Trust the soup.
What to do when you are in a creative endeavour and are doubting yourself? When you hit a wall and you think, “I can’t do this”, or “This will never work”, or “this idea is just not good enough”.
Trust the soup.
From Steven Pressfield’s ‘Do the work’:
👉 When we say “Trust the soup,” we mean the Muse, the unconscious, the Quantum Soup. The sailor hoists his canvas, trusting that the wind (which is invisible and which he can neither see nor control) will appear and power him upon his voyage. You and I hoist our canvas to catch ideas.
👉 Ideas come according to their own logic. That logic is not rational. It’s not linear. We may get the middle before we get the end. We may get the end before we get the beginning. Be ready for this. Don’t resist it.
👉 Forget rational thought. Play. Play like a child.
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Trust the soup. Follow the flow of ideas. Never act and reflect at the same time. Your first draft matters more than the negative voice in your head.