Creativity isn’t a constant it ebbs and flows and yet for the last 16 years I’ve been paid for consistency. It’s a tough gig, but i love it.

My house and the houses of others are decorated with my paintings, but I’ve only completed 1 painting in the last ten years. I’ve completed countless designs for print that are likely occupying space in landfills. Electrons and pulses of light that carried my designs to the screens of computers around the world now deliver others creative endeavors. The paintings remain. I might have to start painting again.

Elizabeth Gilbert muses on how creative people can create a protective psychological construct to mitigate the taste of failure that comes with daring to create.