I feel like I'm stuck on a plateau in terms of creativity/skill and don't know how to keep climbing up. I know the solution is not think about how 'good' my stuff is and just to keep writing, which I am doing.. but I'm  getting frustrated and having a hard time being satisfied with the stuff I make. When I was first learning I could write something super simple using just open chords or something, and I'd fall in love with it. Be so proud of it and show off my new song to all my friends.. The funny thing is I like a lot of those first songs I wrote just as much, if not more, than the stuff I'm doing now. And I think a lot of it has to do with the mindset I had then. I remember first learning how to play a C7 chord and thinking 'Oh man, this is so cool!!' Have you ever felt like you reached the top of a plateau?
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