Songwriting is one of those things for me where I get so nervous about it sometimes that I could easily talk myself out of doing it - permanently.
I still don't know as much about songwriting as I hoped I would by now. I'm not nearly as advanced as I wanted to be.
And that can make my brain get on my case. My brain can cook up all kinds of criticism about it. It's trying to "protect" me by putting up "warning signs," like "STOP NOW. You don't know what you're doing." It's trying to be "smart."
Well, Brain...I don't want you to be "smart" about this anymore. I want you to be DUMB.
Many times in my life, I've succeeded at something because I was "dumb enough to do it." I didn't rationalize, overthink it, criticize myself, or care what anyone else thought. I put my prefrontal cortex on the back burner and let my reptilian brain take over. I just did it.
I didn't need "confidence" because I didn't know I needed it. I didn't do even that much thinking.
So, dear Brain...go away. For a little while, anyway. Just let me be dumb enough to do this.
You can come back when I need to give my Grammy speech for Song Of The Year.
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