Creation, process and results
If you think everyone but you has it easy in life and in work, think again. This is Ingmar Bergman in a 1964 Playboy interview:
“Do you know what moviemaking is? Eight hours of hard work each day to get three minutes of film. And during those eight hours there are maybe only ten or twelve minutes, if you’re lucky, of real creation. And maybe they don’t come. Then you have to gear yourself for another eight hours and pray you’re going to get your good ten minutes this time.”
You don’t get hit by creativity. Not everything you touch turns to gold. Yes, some have more talent than others. Maybe they don’t have talent, but they find talent, maybe that’s the right way to put it. But essentially, you work and work and work, and then you experience glimpses of really good work. Everyone famous worked hard to get to be masters at what they are. Hours into days, days into weeks, months, years… Not everything is “the top of the game”.
Yet, the only way to have something worthy is to put in work. Learn to enjoy the process rather than the result. There’s so much more process than there is result.
