When you need it you fail
Need pulls your attention from the task at hand and scatters it extraneously
Need is cognitively taxing
You can’t give it 100% if you are so focused on not losing it, on doing it in some arbitrarily right way
Try NOT needing and see how much more energy you have: without stressing, without trying to control everything, consciously, subconsciously
Create space for yourself to spread wings
Do away all constraints, all limitations
Let loose completely
Grant yourself the luxury of failing
Grant yourself the luxury of doing it YOUR way
It’s difficult to FLY in the world where everyone’s digging in the dirt, only ever concerned with some trivial little end, trivial little result, trivial little GAIN
Don’t be that person
Get over that need, that destitution, that desperation
Do something you’re enthusiastic about or do nothing
The few things that you actually do need — do them with a vigor of a starving man
Everything else is play
Do it enthusiastically or do nothing
When you do it without having any end in mind, without being constrained by time, without being constrained by standards, without being shied away by the judgmental eyes of others… you may just discover what you’re truly capable of.
You should also find joy you’ve forgotten since your child days. Since the days you were unconstrained for the last time, not greedy and not ambitious and not so fucking sad and desperate
Reconnect with that innocence and you should know joy, and you should know creativity