Karisher’s Reviews > Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad > Status Update

4. "Try it: If you're bummed out and hating your work, pick somebody special in your life and make something for them. If you have a big audience, make them something special and give it away. Or maybe even better: Volunteer your time and teach someone else how to make what you make and do what you do. See how it feels. See whether it puts you in a better place."

4. "It's always good to have a hobby where there's no way to monetize it... So follow your dreams, but right up to the point where they become your job, and then run in the other direction."

4. "Everyone who's turned their passion into their breadwinning knows this is dangerous territory. One of the easiest ways to hate something you love is to turn it into your job: taking the thing that keeps you you alive spiritually and turning it into the thing that keeps you alive literally."

3. "The great artists are able to retain this sense of playfulness throughout their careers. Art and the artist both suffer most when the artist gets too heavy, too focused on results."

2. "The only antidote is JOMO: the Joy Of Missing Out. As writer Anil Dash explains, "There can be, and should be, a blissful, serene enjoyment in knowing, and celebrating, that there are folks out there having the time of their life at something that you might have loved to, but are simply skipping." "

2. The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty, and boredom. Those have always been where creative ideas come from."

2. "Creativity is about connection-you must be connected to others in order to be inspired and share your own work but it is also about disconnection. You must retreat from the world long enough to think, practice your art, and bring forth something worth sharing with others. You must play a little hide-and-seek in order to produce something worth being found."