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Being Paid To Feel Good
This, one might suspect, is a Quora comment from someone who has worked all their life motivate by fear rather than love. Whether fear of obscurity or poverty, such a person loses motivation as they gain success. This is someone who will have to create financial emergency to open the creative floodgates, so they will have to live right up to the edge of their means, or they will become idle. But the geniuses we admire are not driven by fear, they are expressing love. The answer to this question included a description of Paul launching into “Maybe I’m Amazed” after telling the crowd that he wrote it for his first wife, Linda.. And…blew the roof off the arena.
Motivated by LOVE, not fear. This is the way. The artist can choose either fear or love to motivate them, but the truth is that most of us are a mixture of both, and we have to find our own healthy way to it. But the Warrior-Artist deals with fear, finds commitment, and frees themselves to pursue love. The difference can be astounding. Consider the person “dieting” for fear of their health, or loss of love. They have not dealt with whatever beliefs, habits, or values that created the behaviors that created the obesity. However, that fear over-rides them, temporarily. Fear is not more powerful than love, but it is more ACUTE. More imperative.
But the problem is that as soon as you have forced yourself to lose a few pounds, the fear decreases (doctor…