> No creative impulse, just worries about chores/bills/obligation and painful memories... and later: > Does anyone know a way to truly rekindle the creative s

> No creative impulse, just worries about chores/bills/obligation and painful memories... and later: > Does anyone know a way to truly rekindle the creative spark after it's completely died? Take an unreasonably keen interest in your chores/bills/obligations. Do you need to cook dinner? Research the hell out of it to understand the underlying principles. Experiment with your techniques, take notes, and perfect. Learn the history of what you're doing. Do you need to do car maintenance? Really understand what it is you're doing and why. Do you need to manage finances? Become an expert in double-entry accounting. Actually watch how-to videos on it and maybe engage in an online discussion or two about it. It's easy to ignore the mundane things we're all faced to do. It's also remarkable how interesting anything - no matter how seemingly unremarkable - can be if viewed from the right perspective and taken to sufficient extremes. If you were to take this approach, I suspect you might find some interests you never knew you had. It's possible you can't make headway on your old interests because you yourself have changed. Those old interests don't in fact interest you in the same way anymore, but you haven't recognized that yet.