I feel like a common problem among people who aspire to make things is that they create from a place of scarcity.
We get stuck constantly comparing ourselves, believing deep down that we’re not enough unless we accomplish X—and that we won’t be accepted otherwise.
The problem is, accomplishing X probably isn’t what you truly want—it’s what you’ve been taught you should want. It’s not your genuine desire but a mimetic one, copied from others.
Creating from that place of scarcity only adds pressure that doesn’t serve you on your quest for happiness, and it becomes an obstacle to doing your best work.
I truly believe your best work happens when you do things for their own sake—genuinely—and not for some external outcome. That’s what flow feels like.
But we, in the Western world, have become so disconnected from that essence, and it’s killing our happiness, fulfillment, flow, and a meaningful life.
The alternative is to create from a place of abundance—from a place where you already feel enough and don’t need external validation to feel okay with yourself.
But that’s a journey of self-understanding, and it takes years—because we’re working against decades of domestication to find our way back to the essence: creating from a place of abundance.