The Bhagavad-Gita says, “It is better to follow your own path, however imperfectly, than to follow someone else’s perfectly.” Consider the people who have found their voice and made a real impact: their paths always differ, but their practices overlap in many ways. At the heart of the creative’s practice is trust: the difficult journey to trust in

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Year after year, knock-back after knock-back, he kept trying to convince reluctant journalists to run with his stories. These ideas are so bad, he must have thought, I can’t even pay someone to write about them. But instead of giving up, he changed tack. He commissioned himself. He set about writing the stories that nobody else wanted. Fully expect

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This means that a significant time delay must be introduced between the expenditure of effort and the arrival of rewards. This goes against everything we’ve been conditioned to experience, so we often give up on our creative pursuits well before they’ve had the required time to catch people’s attention.