The Interesting Times: How to Do What You Love
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The Interesting Times: How to Do What You Love
“Another test you can use is: always produce. For example, if you have a day job you don't take seriously because you plan to be a novelist, are you producing? Are you writing pages of fiction, however bad? As long as you're producing, you'll know you're not merely using the hazy vision of the grand novel you plan to write one day as an opiate. The... See more
The Interesting Times: How to Do What You Love
I think I mostly agree except that sometimes you sort of don’t enjoy doing things early on because they’re new and hard. It’s easy to enjoy doing stuff that can seem like “producing” (e.g., endlessly doing research or studying) but not actually being productive. Many true forms of creative production are Type 2 fun, which is not necessarily enjoyable in the moment.