The Path: Create for Your Community
Creating something is good for your soul. You can feel it when you’re in the flow state of creating something. You feel focused, time flies, you’ve never felt so whole, you know you are on The Path. You don’t need to subscribe to a religion to feel it, if you’re an atheist, you can call it the universe, whatever floats your boat but you know there’s something special about it. It’s almost as if something divine above is connecting with something within you. This feeling is good for you, if you’re stressed prior to this feeling then you’re usually relaxed after, you’re at peace, you’re vibrating at a higher level. I’ll say it again, creating is GOOD for your SOUL.
Profit: A Measurement of Your Idea’s Value for the Community
Profit is a dirty word among the unwise and it’s sad to hear because they usually mean well but they don’t understand deep mechanisms and merely demonize any capitalist adjacent words. In a REAL economy, your profit, your net worth, your savings are measurements for how much you’ve provided your community, how much you’ve ADDED to your community minus how much you’ve SUBTRACTED from your community. Think about it, if you have a lot of money in a bank account, you’ve created value and you haven’t spent that value. This is obviously assuming a moral economy with a hard money at its base which is not something we currently have, we’ve perverted money and have corrupted the game. It is no longer about providing value but getting as close to the money printer as you can, creation in the market, the entrepreneurs are benefited most by getting government contracts or bank contracts or getting in any industry that is heavily regulated by the government such as healthcare. All this to say, in the right economy, profit isn’t a dirty word, its your value you’ve provided to your community, to your fellow humans, it is not evil to pursue profit from your ideas or your creations.
The Graded Path: Cultivating Creativity, One Step at a Time
We’ve covered that when you’re creating then you’re on The Path. You are starting to enter a state when you’re generating or giving to your community and it feels good when you’re on it even if you’re not creating anything of value for anyone immediately but the trouble is getting started. Small wins are key, it is hard to transition your brain from mostly consuming to creating, creating is difficult. Start slow wins, create in public, add something of tiny value, tiny steps upward and getting those wins are important in building the momentum you’ll need to stay on The Path. Eventually you’ll be facing up a mountain that seems to be a sheer cliff with some of your ideas but if you’ve started up the path, you’ve gained the wisdom of where to look for handholds that will help you up the mountain. Don’t immediately try rock-climbing until you’ve done some hiking. This is my small attempt. Write something in public. Video something in public. Even if it makes some tiny impact, it was worth it.
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