Create? Be created.

This is also well-documented, especially in ECE (early child education) and process of learning vis a vis intrinsinc vs extrinsinc motivation, and its impact on the process of learning. When you pursue a passion project with a reward tied to it, your brain learns to do it for the reward, not just because. Ironically, it became your hobby or your passion in the first place, not due to the expectation of a reward, but just because - something about it fed your mind positively. Passion thus, becomes pressure. The entire idea of positive psychology on the other hand, is to go from pleasure to passion, passion to purpose, not the other way around.

So, what is the most difficult thing in this pursuit? Not money, not opportunities, not time; it is managing one’s energy. The ability to just be bored, just think, just be. The ability to do things for that innate sense of joy, curiosity, spark of happiness. To enquire after things, 'just because'. The energy to create. The energy to try, ONE, MORE, TIME.

Manage your energies, and you manage your creativity, your mind and your sense of self.