There are more limitations on your creativity than you think. And you are responsible for almost all of them.

Let’s assume you’re no longer afraid of judgment by other people. You are no longer held back by that limitation. Still, there’s something deeper that is limiting you and your creativity way more than fear of judgment is, not because fear of judgment is not going to hold you back significantly, but because you are unaware of what branches or stems from fear of judgment that might be even worse than the mere reluctance to speak your mind because of what others might think of you. One of these branches is the fact that you are still afraid of saying something that turns out to be factually incorrect at some point in the future. And not just out of ignorance, but out of the fact that no one knows the truth about this thing yet, or this thing hasn’t been scientifically discovered or researched extensively enough yet. If science will reveal you were wrong about something in the future, you might think, well, no one else knew that what I’ve said is wrong until then, so it wasn’t my fault. I did the best I could within the limits I had back then. You are likely to be less embarrassed in this case than you would if it was a well-established fact even years before you’ve said it. But that’s not the whole story. You are afraid of using your mind at all, because of the fear of making that kind of mistakes. How you jumped from this to that is astonishing to say the least. The problem isn’t with the fear of making scientific mistakes. It is with the fear of making any kind of mistakes, whether scientific or not. You can avoid making scientific mistakes easily by researching enough about the subject matter that is of concern to you at the moment before you proceed on to discuss anything related to it. The problem is with your reluctance to generate or have any opinion, conclusion, realization, belief, or thought about anything whatsoever, because you’re afraid of being wrong scientifically or otherwise. In the end, you will neither be able to think for yourself, nor be able to understand anything that could be described as scientific, because this is forbidden territory for you, and you’re not allowed to be wrong or make any mistakes whatsoever, and you’re not allowed to think for yourself or question anything because who do you think you are. And for you to stop questioning everything, you’ll have to quit thinking altogether. No one said that whatever you say will be published in scientific journals or taken as scientific gospel or be considered factual without any further investigation. Which means that the only reason you’re afraid of such kind of mistakes is what others will think of you. That’s why it’s only rational to consider this as something that could branch out of your fear of judgment, which you think you’ve totally beaten recently by being unapologetically yourself. Now you know why you haven’t made much progress in this area. You are still afraid of thinking lest you’d end up embarrassing yourself and saying something that doesn’t exist yet, because all you do is regurgitate what has already been recently discovered by science.