When you embody this intention in what you do, two things happen. The first is that you stop questioning whether a creative act is worth doing. In the same way that a child plays without justification, you express without expectation. A child doesn’t play because she’ll be paid for it, and similarly, you don’t create because you’ll be praised for it. You do it for its own sake, which is the sentiment behind the adage that “a creative adult is a child who has survived.”*
