This can also be generalized for any pursuit.

Mike Sturm

Feb 10, 2017·1 min read

This can also be generalized for any pursuit. When the pursuit itself is your fuel, you can keep going when others — whose fuel was only the result — have long since sputtered out.

Mike Sturm

Author of “The Wabi-Sabi Way” and “Be, Think, Do”. Subscribe to my newsletter “Woolgathering”: https://goo.gl/UhzUYL.

What gives us the will to pursue art when there is no external validation (in fact, often in the face of many deterrents) is the strength of our belief that we need to make art, that it fuels our well-being and joy and that we are deserving of such well-being and joy.

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