Stuck in the recess between

Darkness over the waters between formless-void, and creativity. A lesson in continued expression.

I’m stuck, because I won’t keep creating, or making, or typing, or expressing.

I’m stuck because I have things to do—too many things.

But to do, is to express, so I must continue my expression of life, and all things considered.

Expression is just making anything. So, go do it. Creation doesn’t even have to be good. Lots of bad creations are popular. Lots of creations are popular becausethey’re bad. Lots of creations aren’t popular, because they’re so good.

I was listening to Jack White and Rick Rubin on Broken Record, and Jack talked about being young, in the rut where you start assuming that “good things are ignored, and things that aren’t very good are popular.” But reality hit when they went mainstream and Jack thought:

[D]oes this mean we’re not any good? If we’re getting well known, maybe […] what we thought was special is not special?

Popularity is counterintuitive

It has nothing to do with quality or how good you are, but everything to do with expression. Jack and Meg were just making music, enjoying their sound, expressing what the moment meant to them.

The best way to be in the moment, is to express.

You’ll get better because you’re making something, you’ll find an audience because you’re making something, and you’ll make something to be proud of, because you’re making something.

There are many people out there who make videos like mine, or write like I do. Some are ‘successful’, some are not. But none of them could tell you what madetheir success, or how they got where they are. There is no foolproof strategy for success. The only foolproof strategy you have, is to express, create, and make.

Although even if that strategy is fool-proof, it’s not smart-proof. It takes courage to create, and sometimes you need a dose of fool’s courage to give yourself permission to start.

Anyone could look at trains, and yet there he is. Anyone could spittle on a mic, and yet there she is. Anyone could start in real estate, and yet there he is. With enough money, anyone could be anything, and there they all are.

But they didn’t get there because they were good.

Create, make, write, record, design, film, express. It’s all about expressing this moment.

Stop consuming, it muddys the waters.