Creative work has sensitive dependence on emotional conditions. What you can power through digging ditches will completely screw up a poem.
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The key is learning which emotional states are beneficial for each kind of creative task, then learn to trigger and hold off, depending
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and also hedge by building some ditch-digging type productive work into your life so bad times don't mean no output at all
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Absolutely. This is why my house is a mess, chores don’t get done until I hit the lulls, & then I work through the blocks doing dishes
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Of course, this works for me because I work from home. But those are good times to do ‘busy grunt work’.
honestly my best creative work is done bathed in money
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