Introducing: The Creator Mindset Map

Creativity takes braveness

We imagine committing to a artistic life is a brave act. You gotta be courageous to disregard different confirmed profession paths and pave your individual manner in a hopeful pursuit of happiness. We see the creator’s life as akin to a hero’s journey, the place the mission, do you have to select to just accept it, is sharing your creativity, your private model of magic, with the world.

Over and over and over.

How exhilarating. How liberating. How (enter expletive) daunting.

To help you in your pursuit of success, we right here at Patreon take into account ourselves your lucky and keen enterprise companions; we’re dedicated to serving to you take pleasure in a satisfying and sustainable artistic profession by way of membership. Why? As a result of membership permits creators such as you to have a direct relationship along with your largest followers, receives a commission (persistently) on your work, and create by yourself phrases. It’s our job to construct merchandise and instruments to streamline this course of for you, and encourage and show you how to as you go.

However we all know your artistic life is way greater and extra complicated than your Patreon membership enterprise. We all know your contract with creativity extends past your patrons, your followers, and your followers. You create since you’re referred to as to, since you couldn’t think about doing anything, as a result of it fulfills you in a manner nothing else ever might.

We all know this, as a result of we’re creators, too

We’ve been excessive on euphoric adrenaline, writing, singing, drawing, or recording our work, realizing we’re onto one thing our viewers will love. And we’ve been deep within the stomach of despair, ready for the darkish clouds of doubt to go. Jack talks concerning the grind quite a bit, so whereas we’re right here that will help you obtain your massive, artistic objectives, we additionally know that typically? (Perhaps extra typically than anybody cares to confess?) Nothing works.

Immediately we’re excited to share with you a challenge that affirms and validates the complexities we juggle as a part of a artistic profession. Made for creators, by creators.

Introducing: The Creator Mindset Map

We’ve developed a Creator Mindset Map that captures the core emotions each creator experiences. Even us. Even Jack. Even, we’re betting, you.

We imagine creators mentally journey between these “territories” as they carry each challenge and each concept to fruition. Heck, some creators can expertise all 4 core emotions in someday. Creators could discover they expertise every feeling in a cyclical loop, transferring from Worry to Hope to Grit to Glory, or an analogous mixture, with regularity. Different creators bounce like a pinball, weaving difficult webs between every of the 4 mindsets.

There’s no proper or improper, no starting or finish, simply phases everybody experiences repeatedly, all through their artistic profession. And we imply everybody, even mega-stars and super-successful creators. Even after basking in Glory for a bit, we all know that Worry or Hope, or Grit await all of us with our subsequent endeavor.

You’re right here and that’s okay

The Creator Mindset Map is a device that will help you… with out being too tacky right here… end up. We hope you embrace (or no less than acknowledge) your present mindset and determine your most well-liked vacation spot. We’re dedicated to validating and witnessing your experiences by supplying you with permission to exist precisely the place you’re. And in the event you’re sad or uncomfortable with that location? We have now concepts and knowledge that will help you get to the place you need to be. As you wander by way of the map, you’ll see we’ve provided some prompts and recommendations to information you alongside your journey.

However, simply in case you want a reminder:

You could have permission to really feel hopeful within the pursuit of a artistic life.

You could have permission to be fearful, to really feel caught, to fret that you simply’re not ok, to rage about how laborious it’s.

You could have permission to get into the gritty particulars, to prioritize your artistic profession, to work laborious at one thing you’re enthusiastic about.

You could have permission to win massive, be gleeful, expertise elation, and reside a joyful and joyous life as a creator.

As a result of all of those emotions and experiences are regular. Every mindset, each stage, affords a possibility for constructive development and private or skilled growth. And whereas some emotions are simpler to handle than others, there isn’t a real hierarchy right here. We simply know that we’ll expertise each sensation once more, in some unspecified time in the future, so it’s finest to get aware of these ideas and emotions and attempt to put together and even plan for them.

Notable Notice: No matter mindset you’re in alongside your journey, is regular, legitimate, and completely okay.

On this, with you

Along with our solidarity and assist, we created this map to showcase how one’s artistic journey is each distinctive and common. Why you’re feeling a sure manner is exclusive to your expertise, however what you’re feeling is probably going a standard emotion amongst different artistic individuals. Whenever you say “I’m feeling caught” or “I’m so pumped about my subsequent challenge,” know that many extra creators are echoing these sentiments, too. We hope once you try the Creator Mindset Map, you’ll bear in mind different creators are studying the identical phrases, acknowledging the identical hopes and fears, and leaning into the grit in pursuit of glory.

Notable Notice: Wherever you’re in your journey, know you aren’t alone. Many creators (together with us) are on this, with you. And we’re humbled to be a part of your journey.

We hope you take pleasure in exploring the Creator Mindset Map, and we sit up for all the good adventures we’ll go on collectively sooner or later.

Wish to dive proper in and be taught extra about every of the mindsets? Learn the blogs on Hope, Worry, Grit, and Glory.

The Creator Mindset Map idea debuted as an interactive set up at PatreCon 2018. We have been so floored by the engagement on the occasion, and impressed by the reactions, that we wished to share it with everybody. We hope it resonates with you.