Florence Given
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You can build resilience to being shamed.
Trust me, I've done it.
I have survived every artist's worst fucking nightmare imaginable.
Your fears...
I've survived them.
I mean it.
I've been publicly shamed by women I was friends with.
I've lost friends because of my success.
I have had writers critique my books line by fucking line.
Just on the internet, line by line.
And laugh at every line of my books.
Because there's no other way.
There is no other way.
And I alchemize that pain and that shame and it teaches me something about myself.
And I get up and I do this shit again.
Because I know your worst fear.
Your worst fear is that you'll release some art and people are going to think that you're a terrible person.
They'll rip it apart.
They'll critique it.
And you will be exposed as a moral failure.