Inner Critisizer?

"Slow birds need to fly earlier than the early bird." or "Dumb Birds Fly First" - Chinese Proverb

Courtesy: AbdulRahman Chao

If your inner editor/ inner critic always uses a negative tone accept the criticism instead of sushing, hushing and subdueing it.

Tell your inner critic that you are going to compensate the 'dumbness' and 'slowness' by starting early.

Also, remember you may not be slow or dumb; creative and smart people do procrastinate and come up with good ideas at the last minute making it seem like you arrived late. 

So you could have afterall, misdiagnosed your dumbness and slowness. 

However use the 'starting early defense' to defeat the inner critc.