A question about selling creativity.

[thelinesoflearning]

So hey. People who make any kind of regular money off selling things they can do. Particularly creative things (extra particularly word things), but anything, really. Tarot, coding skills, whatever, I'm sure there are things I can't think of.

How do you beat down the feeling of "I don't deserve to be paid for this, I'm not good enough, there's got to be someone better out there you could get this from"? Or ignore it? Or however you defeat it enough to actually put price to things?

Comments

[thelinesoflearning]

You make a lot of excellent points. And this is really interesting to read.

I think my problems run the opposite direction -- it's not "people won't pay me enough", it's "why the hell do I think I'm worth putting a price tag on in the first place, you shouldn't even accept it if I'm giving it away" -- but this is still really interesting to think about, and in context of other people, makes a lot of sense ot me.