This may not at all fit your particular situation. Are you employed? A freelancer? Something else? Do you have a boss or clients? Those are all factors to consider.
One path forward is to reframe to make your labor the reward: the work that you do, not the feedback or recognition from others, is where you draw your satisfaction.
Disconnect any sense of self-worth from the work that you do. When your work is not appreciated, that has no bearing on your value and identity. You are not what others say or don't say about your work.
Consider creating things for yourself only. (In addition to the things created in the work and income and project space.) Develop the practice using your gifts to delight yourself, you'll become less needful and attached to feedback from others.
Oct 24, 2024
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Pull a joni mitchell and engage in arts that differ from your primary to inform it at a later time.
If you lean more toward visual arts try poetry, song writing, music making, acting/performances for the self, crochet, clay, claymation, videography, sound collection, whistling, discovering new sounds you can make etc.
Often when i want to create but i feel tired or uninspired i try to use still life or my surroundings— BUT If thats boring i ask myself a question and let my train of thought ramble -> connecting that rambling to my pen on paper
Honestly setting your inner critic to rest and creating things that are imperfect is actually incredible!
More often than not letting first drafts be final for a moment allows you to discover what you crave to create.
Apr 11, 2024
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For me, while i am not in a super creative job force, the big reason I stopped creating is because I felt immense pressure to create for a profit or recognition from people. I felt like I had to do things to be better or comparable to other creators. and then when I put too much time into it with little result, I would become upset.
What I do now is have the expectation in my head that anything I do, I do it for myself and my own amusement. It’s not to sell something, or to gloat about it social media. I just do it to get the creative energy out.
Jan 7, 2025
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Keep creating in silence. Become delusional with your own self talk. Make your work only for you and then bring it to the world with your voice, not the words you‘ve heard others say about your work.
It’s tough but necessary if you are serious about becoming the poet, artist, writer you truly are.
Sep 22, 2024
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this is worthy of celebration: the lack of video—autoplay video, noisy inane video, panicky video, algorithmic, dumb video, rabbit hole video, any video—on pi.fyi is a good thing
Oct 5, 2024
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this is going to hurt — A LOT — but it's getting to the point where there's no other option
Mar 11, 2025