Being an artist

Being an artist means being so precious about the final thing that you are aggressively not precious with the process stuff.

A lot of it is just asking "is this it? is this the thing? am i done? did i do it?" and hoping for the pat on the head. but if we keep thinking that we're holding the thing, then we get very protective and cautious of it all. it prevents us from actually working on it. Assume it's not the thing and keep going. Treat this bit as if its just a fact-finding mission and you can use it to build the criteria for the thing.