Kafka’s Approach to Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gifts
Maria Popova explores Kafka’s diaries as a record of his struggle with creative block, identifying four psychological hindrances that separate the gifted from their gifts: time-anxiety, world-anxiety, and others. Kafka used journaling as both discipline and exorcism, holding fast to the practice even when nothing else flowed, recognizing that procrastination and self-doubt are paradoxically part…