This is the third law of art: Your Ego Fears Your Art. If you start making your art, you’re going to expose your self to discomfort. You’ll have to resist distractions to do the work, you’ll have to struggle through doing work that doesn’t yet meet your standards, and you’ll have to face criticism to make your work better. It’s the ego’s job to protect you from this discomfort. Over time, the distance between the ego and the self gets bigger and bigger. Then you just have a big pocket of air, with a lot of tension between the shell that is the ego and the little mound that is the self. Nobody
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