Living the Intuitive Creative Life

Not Everything Has to Be Seen: The Power of Creating for Yourself

Publié le 2 avr. 2025 Mis à jour le 2 avr. 2025 Développement personnel

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Living the Intuitive Creative Life

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Not Everything Has to Be Seen: The Power of Creating for Yourself

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When I was growing up, I created art, stories, books, and crafts for fun all the time. And of course I showed these things off to my parents and my friends, but other than the occasional handmade present, much of what I created was for myself.

In the current internet landscape, I feel like I’m constantly being pushed into “handmade gifts mode”. There is this endless pressure to create things that others like all the time. And those anxious moments of when no one sees or likes what I create—sends my mind down a winding path of questioning if the project I put so much of my care into was…worthless.

Then the pressure builds to figure out what everyone wants from me and what the algorithms want from me—all so that someone somewhere can see (and like) what I make. So as a creative in