Building your creative confidence

Ade-Lee Adebiyi talks candidly on how he's built his creative confidence over the years and overcome impostor syndrome. His creative journey hasn't always been an easy one and he has become accepting his of weaknesses, failures and strengths.

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1. Building Your Creative Confidence
2. Hey there, I’m Ade-Lee! adelee_design
3. My Inspirations Growing up
5. My First Pet Project
6. https://www.dafont.com/teddyber.font
11. Life Lesson No.1 Copyright your shit!
15. I became more ‘selfless’ I started working for free, for self validation.
16. What is creative confidence?
17. “At its core, creative confidence is about believing in your ability to create change in the world around you.” ― Tom Kelley, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
18. Why is creative confidence important?
19. Give’s you the empowerment you need to challenge something creatively. Helps with Imposter Syndrome.
21. Imposter Syndrome Rating your skills and ability lower than they actually are.
22. Undercharging Taking less risks Stunted Growth Negative Attitude Fail to realise your self worth and skill. Constantly playing it safe and only following trends. Stop progressing creatively and in your career. Quick to put others down to make yourself feel better.
23. Dunning-Kruger Effect Rating your skills higher than what they are.
24. Arrogance Over Confidence Biting off more than you can chew Following the trend Everyone loves an arrogant creative. Fail to see potential problems because you think you’re shit hot. You know, that dribbble whore.
27. Life Lesson No.2 Take a step back and just review everything.
28. Right now, this is a harmless hoodie.
31. Now we have a slight problem… But we can still fix this! Someone can still flag the problem before it goes out!
32. - Parents of the model - Stylist(s) - Makeup artist(s) - Photographer - Photographers assistant(s) - Retouch Artist - Creative Director(s) - Marketing Manager(s) - Marketing Assistant(s) - Web Designer(s) - Content Manager(s)
 - Content Executive(s)
35. Ok. Now we have a big problem…
36. Someone could’ve stopped this. Someone with Creative Confidence.
37. My tips for Creative Confidence and for dealing with Imposter Syndrome
38. Read Seek Feedback Always critique your own work DON’T be a snowflake Kaizen baby! It’ll hurt in the short term, help in the long term. Overly sensitive and easily triggered by everything.
40. An amazing tool for creative badasses, like yourselves! shop.makeitpopgame.com
41. make it pop is a card game for creatives looking to have fun while improving their creative confidence and design approach.
43. We are currently touring the U.K hosting free workshops so if you’re a creative, lecturer or student and would like to have us, get in touch! makeitpopgame.com/workshops
44. Last but not least…
45. Be yourself!
46. adelee_design