This realization is what made me get my life together. I recognized that striving for success as an artist requires you to abandon the rest of your life while c

This realization is what made me get my life together. I recognized that striving for success as an artist requires you to abandon the rest of your life while counting on being an outlier, and no rational person would bet their life on that. I still make art and I still swing for the fences sometimes, but I decided not to starve and my life is all the better for it.