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+title: Rules of a Creator's Life
+date: 2021-07-19T16:01:00+02:00
+categories:
+    - braindump
+tags:
+    - jobs
+---
+
+I initially wrote down these rules in my second notebook on the 23th of April in 2012. I came across them a second time in a more recent notebook. To me, these rules must somehow be more than simply appealing. 
+
+1. Do more than you're told to.
+2. Try new things.
+3. Teach others about what you know.
+4. Make work into play.
+5. Take breaks.
+6. Work when others are resting.
+7. Always be creating.
+8. Make your own inspiration.
+9. Love what you do, or leave.
+
+My journal tells me they were originally published on [creativesomething.net](https://creativesomething.net), although I can't find the exact location anymore. Although that site confuses _creating_ with _creativity_, it's still a nice source of inspirational texts and book reviews on the subject. 
+
+Number Nine especially resonates with me lately. Po Bronson writes in his book [What Should I Do With My Life?](https://www.pobronson.com/index_what_should_I_do_with_my_life.htm) about what he calls **Artistic Authenticity**:
+
+> Do not betray yours by doing something not close to your heart. 
+
+Still, rushing to quit the job and yelling _"On to the next one!"_ won't make things better. Po notes in [The top 15 mistakes people make](https://www.pobronson.com/WSIDWML_Author_Notes.htm) the following:
+
+> It's not what you do, it's what you are working towards. Work satisfaction rarely comes from a perfect fit of the skills you have to the skills your job requires. All jobs have unpleasant elements---don't look for a job without unpleasant elements, but rather, look for a job that is worth doing such that the unpleasant elements are worth putting up with. Gain satisfaction from being able to do your work in a moral fashion.
+
+Doing your work in a moral fashion entails not being stuck in [a bullshit job](/post/2020/12/thoughts-on-bullshit-jobs/), as David Graeber likes to call it. 
+
+Well, would you look at the time. 
+
+Rule Number Five is calling. I'm off to take a break from today!