consciously, consistently, and creatively nurture our artist
selves.
When the fame drug hits, go to your easel, your
typewriter, your camera or clay. Pick up the tools of your
work and begin to do just a little creative play.
Soon, very soon, the fame drug should start to lessen its
hold. The only cure for the fame drug is creative endeavor.
Only when we are being joyfully creative can we release the
obsession with others and how they are doing.

COMPETITION

You pick up a magazine—or even your alumni news—and
somebody, somebody you know, has gone further, faster,
toward your dream. Instead of saying, “That proves it can
be done,” your fear will say, “He or she will succeed instead
of me.”
Competition is another spiritual drug. When we focus on
competition we poison our own well, impede our own
progress. When we are ogling the accomplishments of
others, we take our eye away from our own through line.
We ask ourselves the wrong questions, and those wrong
questions give us the wrong answers.
“Why do I have such rotten luck? Why did he get his
movie/article/play out before I got mine out? Is it because of
sexism?” “What’s the use? What do I have to offer?” We