This is why it's important to have passions outside of those that pay the bills. And, if your passions and finances are entangled, which is the goal for most, i

This is why it's important to have passions outside of those that pay the bills. And, if your passions and finances are entangled, which is the goal for most, it's important to build structures that allow times of absolute creativity (time in the goalless path). A writer still must spend time editing his work, which is a different process than creating. So, if you have profit in the back of your mind throughout the process, as the essay notes, you will stifle yourself. If you have an editing process, where you line up your creative expressions with profit, you're basically doing what a writer does when he edits. Bill Walsh's The Score Takes Care of Itself is a fun book that, as the title suggests, deals with this idea.