That’s the thing about creativity: You don’t need to see the whole path. You just have to take the next step. And the next. The path of every creator takes many unforeseen twists and turns. That’s its nature. The only way to “fail” at creativity is to stop walking the path altogether.

The practice of choosing creativity persists. It’s a commitment to a process, not simply the next outcome on the list. We do this work for a reason, but if we triangulate the work we do and focus only on the immediate outcome, our practice will fall apart.

Even if the world outside were to remain static, the information we took in would still be ever-changing. And so too would the work we bring forth. The person who makes something today isn’t the same person who returns to the work tomorrow.