> The enemy of creativity is the inner censor ... and I wonder how many of us just need to be reminded that it's ok (indeed, arguably better) to create for nobo

> The enemy of creativity is the inner censor ... and I wonder how many of us just need to be reminded that it's ok (indeed, arguably better) to create for nobody but ourselves. (at least for the first 10,000 hours) That could get really lonely. I really fell off practicing instruments, which I in hindsight think has more to do with having no one to play with (less practice, less proficient, in turn think I have less to offer other people that play, get more discouraged from not being proficient enough, vicious cycle), than it has to do with me having terrible discipline. There was no reward in sight other than playing something at 10 more BPM. And that 10,000 hours thing seems like a bandwagon. I don't see how it is useful at all to lump all skills into this one mold. If I wanted to play something like punk rock, I would not isolate myself practicing playing it for 10,000 hours before playing with others or publishing. A lot of those hours just practicing punk rock would gain me hardly anything at all.