Your Creative Self and Why I Love/Hate Fortnite
It's not what you think, it's what you create...
1 Story from Experience
Identity has always been a hard thing for me to find. I’m so good at copying others that it’s hard to find out what I truly am. Am I a sum of all personalities that I’ve come into contact with? If that were the case, I’d have had every job in the world, and be able to act professionally at any task given to me in that world. But alas, that’s just not the case. I suck at Fortnite although I've played it for hundreds of hours. I’ve tried for years to learn to play the guitar yet I refuse to be able to play any songs from memory. I live streamed on Twitch for 3 years, reaching partner status yet refused to try and make a career out of it. I do things for the sake of doing things, to try, to experiment. The problem comes when people try to force me to do them for their own selfish reasons or force me to try and make money doing them. I like money and eating food once in a while, don’t get me wrong, but the fact of learning and being successful in my mind at doing something is worth a lot more to me than getting paid for it.
Does this mean I’m just meant to be poor and be accepting of the low paying jobs of all creative artists? I think it goes to show that Creativity is very unique to the individual. It’s an outward expression of who we are and also our potential to be something more. I would suggest if you are struggling to know who you are, try out some things different from your normal routine. Exercising that creative bone in your body, doing so will lead to finding out who you are, how your internal creative clock operates, and who you actually like to hang around with that would help your creative efforts.
2 Ideas from Me
Most Social Networks are over 10 years old, Apps have a very small lifecycle in the lives of those that use them, Tech is fast paced and must evolve or get replaced almost instantly, look how far Facebook has fallen for example. One Software Privacy Change from Apple and their revenues plummeted! Don’t let the rug get pulled out from under you like that. Start a blog, an email list, maybe even a podcast, but whatever you do, host it yourself or at least on a platform where your content is yours and not directed under a TOS a mile long you never read.
I have high hopes for Self Guiding Cars, it’ll be super fun when I need to take a 2 hour drive and I can just play Elden Ring the whole way there. Autonomous driving has huge career implications for some of the 3.5 million truck drivers in the US. It’ll be interesting to see how we transition. Would it be alot like the transition from Offline Business to Ecommerce? If so there’s going to be a lot of opportunity for entrepreneurs to provide services that help with the transition, just like the dotcom boom did.
3 Quotes from Others
”To use a thematic metaphor, it’s like we’re dragons on our hoard of gold, jealously keeping watch, worrying that if anyone new enters, their presence will somehow dilute our enjoyment. The irony is that there is infinite space inside, and if we open the way, we’ll find many of these newcomers are the very treasure we’re seeking.”
-Brandon Sanderson
”To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.”
-E.E.Cummings
“Living with ADHD is like walking up a down escalator. You can get there eventually but the journey is exhausting.”
-Kathleen Ely