How to Deal With Anxiety of Influence

Howdide: How do we deal with anxiety of influence in light of this? "I didn't watch fire fly on t v because i felt like it was too much like what i was already doing, and therefore i just wasn't allowed to watch it. Same with the same with cowboy bebob" 'We're writing in our genres for genre savi people,' he says.'You can share elements with different things, but it's the whole of it that makes it your work'