Esther Patrizia
1 min readJan 24, 2019

Stop working, Niklas :) No, you’re completely right. This reminds me of Elizabeth Gilbert’s view of creativity — she says inspiration is a force separate from us that we can’t rely on showing up for us. But we can show it that we’re worth showing up for by doing in the work we do every day. And we need to accept that it’s not really our thoughts/ideas/creativity we’re putting out into the world — they came through us, but not necessarily from us. Takes off so much pressure.

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But we can show it that we’re worth showing up for by doing in the work we do every day.

This is great! Reminds me of Steven Pressfield and Resistance, very similar concept!

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