I wonder if you consider yourself “creative for a living” because I am, and your generalization does not ring any bells for me. Creative people are often motiv

I wonder if you consider yourself “creative for a living” because I am, and your generalization does not ring any bells for me. Creative people are often motivated by a task, filling in holes in the patterns they see (and finding these patterns), not by boredom. I don’t smoke or gamble and have no interest in picking it up. Drinking is limited to “on special occasions” (and that is how I like it). I do however like to travel, and that is my guilty pleasure. I can feel guilty about this (hence guilty pleasure), so I travel less than what I want to, exactly because it affects “work”, like the grand parent talks about. But that feeling helps me be creative for a living, because I finish the things I start rather than go awol, smoking, drinking, or traveling the world.