I’m sorry, you didn’t get the memo?

Develop new interests in things that make you excited for living in general, outside of the category of providing others with value. Stuff that you’d do anyway for its own sake, and is non-monetizable. You’re a grown up now. You cannot expect to have the same interests that you had when you were a teenager or a young adult in your twenties. This is not a case of a general loss of interest in all activities that were previously interesting to you in the past, due to depression, necessarily. This is just you lacking the interests of a grown up. You’re not a kid anymore, and it is only normal to find yourself no longer considering Call of Duty to be the center of the universe or the ultimate purpose of life.

This is not because you are supposed to have totally different interests for every decade or five years of your life. This is about you not having developed the interests of a grown up yet.

One of the biggest limiting factors on your creativity and productivity is the fact that you are afraid of saying something that will turn out to be not true at some point in the future, whether that is because science might discover something new someday, or because the truth is out there, already well-known by a lot of people who speak on the subject, but you are unaware of it for some reason. You will then remain reluctant to speak your mind and express your thoughts or opinions on the subject of discussion here because you don’t want to embarrass yourself or make a fool out of yourself. This is so wrong on so many levels, most fascinating of which is the fact that as a creative individual, you need to put or lay out what you think or know about the topic of question before you can learn anything new about it. Your creative energy is not a reflection or a direct result of learning or your knowledge. It is a force that exists on its own, which can be activated and stimulated by learning, researching, and exploring, but is not a reflection or a direct result of these things. These things only serve as an awakening force for your inner creative forces. That’s why you need to read a ton in order to stimulate your creativity, but it is not saying what you’ve learned in your own words. You did not arrive at your new conclusions because of the new information only. It’s mainly because your mind decided to think and do its job as a result of environmental exposure to stimulating material that was provocative enough for it to bother working. The new answers and conclusions you may arrive at will in countless cases have nothing to do with what you’re reading or what you’ve recently learned, but you could have never arrived at such conclusions, observations, opinions, ideas, or thoughts if it weren’t for the stimulating effect of reading or being exposed to the creative work of others.

Your reluctance to wait until you know everything before you speak on the subject is due to the assumption or belief that you only write what you know or talk about something because there’s nothing about the topic being discussed that you don’t already know to the fullest extent. That is a major limiting belief that you cannot afford to hold if you intend to reach your full potential as a creative individual.

It’s okay to say something wrong. Just make sure you say what you’ve learned is the right thing later on the moment it comes to your attention.