Anxious about your next design presentation? The feeling of anxiety is physiologically almost the same as excitement. Both create butterflies in your stomach and an elevated heart rate. Try reframing your anxiety as excitement by thinking the opposite thought.
For example, instead of thinking ‘what if they don’t like my designs?’, think ‘what if they love my designs?’
GBA [Guilty By Association], a digital bridge to empower the creative unseen, needed an identity that could represent each of the artists without bias. Designer and coder Talia Cotton’s solution is an infinitely generative logo identity that constantly redraws itself.
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
You can’t have growth without failure; they are inextricably linked. Failure is just a lesson learned. If fear of failing has been holding you back, take a small step today. It’s harder to be stuck where you are than to risk failing.