Selfishness Is The Root To Selflessness

The importance of doing work for yourself, rather than for others.

This sounds selfish – the key thing is that selfishness is the root to selflessness.

Working for money means that we need to apply a set of guidelines to the work we do, like working out who our audience is, what is selling and what will help you stand out. These are all effectively limitations, and that’s a good thing, because creativity is in its essence making the most out of less, and money is a reward for valuable work.

Creativity doesn’t necessarily mean swooping brush strokes, throwing up on a canvas or achieving a euphoric state during the process. Some of these are plain weird. Creativity is simply making better decisions whether that be through the synergy of several ideas, or doing more with less.

Being purely creative and expressive is great, but if you do all this with constraints, like within the confines of a business or on a particular theme, the quality of your work can still flourish.

The importance of specialisation and restriction and simplification when it comes to work and business.

Your job is to create the conditions that work for you, so that you can make money from a craft that interests you. This might require some searching.

William Shakespeare undoubtedly wrote for himself. His work was entirely unique. He even invented hundreds of new words that we still use today in the English language.

He wasn’t adapting his work to what he assumed others would like. He was an inventor. He worked purely for himself, from his own soul.

His plays, however, were also a huge success during his time and he wrote specifically for live theatrical performance, a 16th Century audience, and he wrote to shed light on the human condition of the time.

These were his constraints, and they guided him, and yet he didn’t write directly for anyone other than himself.

Just because he was Shakespeare does not mean that we can’t be like Shakespeare too, in fact, it’s becoming more and more necessary.

The best works of art, the very best performances, the stories that made the biggest impression on us are always the ones that were created for the creators.

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