I want to feel like I’m part of a continuum

When you work for yourself, the
pile never gets down to zero. 

There’s always something else to be done. There’s
always more work waiting. Even after grinding it out for sixteen hours a day,
seven days a week, you still might not put a dent in the pile. 

Work units just keep
popping up like some kind of twisted, neverending game of whac a mole. 

It
can feel profoundly frustrating and mystifying. You think to yourself, Iclimbed
all these mountains, and now there’s another one? 

What. The. Hell. 

Unfortunately, this experience is written into the
entrepreneurial job description. It comes with the territory of hiring
yourself. And learning to live with the uncertainty of it is part of becoming a
complete artist. 

But as my mentor once said,the futility of everything
is fertile ground. 

That’s why you learn to make peace with the pile. To
love the pile. To accept work for the infinite regression that it is. And just do
your best, every day, to move your story forward. 

Because art is a long arc
game. There is no finish line. There is no expiration date on the imagination.
Everything we create isa constantly evolving organism within the
ecosystem of our larger body of work. Everything we do is assigned its
appropriate home on the artistic continuum. And everything we become
contributes to our story as an individual. 

Once we embrace that reality, once
we surrender to the absurdity of this neverending pile, the thing we call work
becomes much easier to process. 

What futilities
have you come to terms with?

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Scott Ginsberg

That Guy with the Nametag

Author. Speaker. Strategist. Filmmaker. Publisher. Songwriter. 

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