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I'm struggling with this as well. Working for the sake of pleasure. It seems that I'm so fixated on how the end result will turn out that I've forgotten the joy

I'm struggling with this as well. Working for the sake of pleasure. It seems that I'm so fixated on how the end result will turn out that I've forgotten the joy of actually doing the work.

elcapitan 10y ago
If you want a more sociological take on this, read "The Craftsman" by Richard Sennett.
- vldx 10y ago
  Allow my to chime in w/ Steven Pressfield's "The War of Art" - same concept, framed in the term "the resistance".
  - abakker 10y ago
    On a slightly different wavelength, Peter Korn's "why we make things and why it matters" really hit home to me.