However, rushing to directly monetize your good work can be a mistake. The right approach is to treat the work that feels good as sacred, protecting it as long as possible by making money doing something else. There are many famous stories of people doing this. Whether it be Albert Einstein working at a patent office, the poet Wallace Stevens at an

a diary or journal of personal reflections. It was a learning tool that the educated class used to understand a rapidly changing world and their place in it.