You’ll be miserable if you don’t do what you’re supposed to do - Austin Kleon
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You’ll be miserable if you don’t do what you’re supposed to do - Austin Kleon
It's a tricky game because you do need to be aware of best practices, what works, what doesn't, etc - that's how you grow and learn to stand out.
But at the same time, you always need to return to the question:
"Why do I create? What do I create for?"
And of all the answers that arise, understand your primary and secondary reasons.
For me, primary
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what's stopping you from doing what you want?
erifili.substack.com
I think a lot of people want to be but they don’t want to do . They want to have written a book, but they don’t want to write the book. They want to be fit, but they don’t want the tedium of working out. They’re ashamed of rejection and they’re ashamed of imperfection. I might want lots of people to subscribe to this Substack, but do I want to... See more
Ava • effort
No way was I going to give up on my work simply because it wasn’t “working.” That wasn’t the point of it. The rewards could not come from the external results—I knew that. The rewards had to come from the joy of puzzling out the work itself, and from the private awareness I held that I had chosen a devotional path and I was being true to it. If
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Expected elation. Society has built a world that defines what's appealing and what's not. What success should look like. I spent years chasing this idea, and achieved it. And never felt truly happy. Why? It seems so obvious, there are a million songs and movies about how wealth and fame aren't the end all be all for human states. Yet we pursue it... See more