This question is often taken for granted and dismissed. Its relevance becomes ignored: What motivates you? Every artist and creative person needs to take some time and think about their subjective answer. Motivation may feel like a fixed force (as if you either have it or you don't), but it is its distinct parts that ought to be identified and explored in order for the feeling of motivation to be strengthened. Connecting deeply and meaningfully to the responses to this question helps nurture and shield the artist's or creative person's relationship with their art and creative endeavor. Shield it from what? From self-doubts, a sense of emotional or cognitive detachment, from conflicting feelings about it and other motivation stoppers.
It often helps to separate between intrinsic motivation (creating for the sake of creating) and extrinsic motivation (creating to obtain a new or separate goal). Here's a non-exhaustive list of motivating factors propelling the drive to create. It is important to note that some factors can be both intrinsic and extrinsic and that a person can derive both types from the same activity. Please feel free to add more in the comment section below:
It often helps to separate between intrinsic motivation (creating for the sake of creating) and extrinsic motivation (creating to obtain a new or separate goal). Here's a non-exhaustive list of motivating factors propelling the drive to create. It is important to note that some factors can be both intrinsic and extrinsic and that a person can derive both types from the same activity. Please feel free to add more in the comment section below:
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