As someone who is creative not by choice but by inescapable genetic predisposition: The creative phase takes a lot of energy, it constantly runs in the backgro

As someone who is creative not by choice but by inescapable genetic predisposition: The creative phase takes a lot of energy, it constantly runs in the background, grinding out the possible from the impossible. If you go out of your way to take on another task unrelated to your day job - you are going to feel the pain. And your performance at work is going to drop. Because the uncomfortable truth is that creative work is like a background task constantly running in the brain. And that saps up resources and removes brain power from your run of the mill tasks. I can feel when a creative process has ended because the fuzzy veil over the world lifts and I can suddenly see more clearly. The resources that were tied up in designing a compressive sensing camera or a new lenticular screen design or a new physical theory of the universe are suddenly released and it's a relief.