Nick Cave has given a fan advice on how to tackle self doubt in a new ‘Red Hand Files’ letter.Replying to a letter Cave received from a fan asking if he suffered from self-doubt, Cave said: “The answer is yes, very much so.”He continued: “My self-doubt tends to manifest itself in sudden, hot rushes of embarrassment, and usually emerges alongside a loss of playfulness or humour — or rather, when I start to take myself, and indeed life, too seriously.“It seems to arise as a countering response to my own sense of self-importance.
Self-doubt is common to us all, I suspect, and uncomfortable and unpleasant as it is, a certain amount can be the truest humanising force, keeping us humble, vulnerable, open-minded and connected to the world.
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