…is bad creativity. You know how I wrote last time about the fact that you should be careful to turn the thing you love into the thing you have to do? Well, it happened to me.
Challenging yourself to be organized and disciplined about your creativity is not a bad thing but it has to be done together with balance. Balance is so extremely important for your well-being. In my ”thousand-words-per-day” challenge quickly expanded into 2000 or even 3000 words per day. Which was fine. For a while. At some point along the way, the thing I first loved turned into the thing I had to do. It became forced creativity. Every moment on the train to work turned into an opportunity to create. An opportunity to maximize my productivity. At first, I liked it, then I was stressed by it. Most of all, I discovered that my train-time to and from work is my rest-time. The time where I process everything from the day, or prepare mentally for it. When I instead used that time for creating, I didn’t get that rest and preparation. I became unfocused, grumpy and tired.
So, needless to say, I took a break from that challenge. I haven’t written anything on the book today, I’m taking a break. I learned from my mistake.