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The benefits of the activity (paying the rent, having a clean kitchen) must outweigh the results of not doing it (getting evicted, kitchen’s a toxic wasteland).Taking it one step further, in order to excel in anything in life, whether it be sailing or chess or breakdancing or And not only do you have to be passionate about it, but the really critical factor for success is that you have some level of compulsion that prevents you from not doing it.
It’s this compulsion, I’ll wager, that drives you to keep hammering away when all normal rationale tells you to do other human activities, such as eating, sleeping, or talking in normal fashion with other humans.
It gives you that motivation, deep in the night, when you’re sleep deprived and you know you have to get up for work in four hours and thirty three minutes, that gives you that extra bizarre push to bang out a couple of meager words to send into the digital void.
Of course, others may argue vehemently against some or all of this, but this begins to set the stage for why I write, and these days that mostly means publishing this here Online Media Cultist blog.
I’ve always felt that tension between writing and not writing, and for me the benefits of writing outweigh — most of the time!
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