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Nihilism, Agency, & Creative Work
If an aspect of your creative work isn’t going well, it can be tempting to think it’s solvable. We might see our work as a system, with a set of tools and a process for fixing issues. Or we can even see it as a machine and the same thing applies—there are schematics, processes, and visible steps toward fixing whatever’s not working.
But here in the Gifted Underachievers clubhouse, it’s becoming apparent that we operate in something more complicated than a system or a machine.
We ask: Is it true that rules can be followed and problems “fixed”? Does it serve us?
Not really. Sometimes it leads…
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