The Moat of Low Status
These industries are vicious precisely because so many people want to be in them. Their ranks are filled not just with those great creators who are actually doing the hard work, but with legions more who will do literally anything to avoid that work while maintaining their positions (or illusions) of power. Together, they form a suffocating gauntle
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Practically every person who graduates from art school will be forced to professionally reinvent themselves as something other than an artist. Because of this, the process of quitting art has been enshrined in the art world as its own respectable genre. This allows professional failure to be normalized so that nothing has to change in an art world ... See more
three psychic horsemen of creation: uncertainty, risk, and exposure to criticism.