You have to settle for producing mass quantities of creative output, even if at the expense of quality, in order to be able to produce high quality creative work or output later on.

Build momentum first, even through low quality output, progress, or work, and then focus on what could be done to reach the desired higher quality.

Without enough momentum and reward, you won’t be able to go so far. You will find yourself spending hours and hours and blowing off endless amounts of energy just trying to get a single piece of creative work perfect, just because you find it too hard to think and use your abilities, as if you’re trapped inside yourself, unable to move, because you are still low on reward or sense of achievement and making progress.

In the end, you’ll find yourself exhausted from the start, with little to show off as the final finished product. You will accomplish way less, with much greater energy consumption or drainage unnecessarily, or you will do less with more energy unnecessarily. You will spend most of your energy doing less creative work for no reason, just because you started off with zero dopamine, reward, or sense of accomplishment, which is not necessarily your fault, and ended up with very low energy, because you failed to generate enough momentum, because you didn’t accomplish enough recently to satisfy your creative needs, because you took too much time and energy trying to get less work done, because you focused on higher quality attainment from the start, at the expense of quantity.

And you cannot generate enough momentum without higher quantity. Create more first, and then worry about creating better. You cannot get to high quality creative output without high quantity creative output. It’s impossible. Not because you need more practice to develop your skill and sharpen your creative potential and abilities, but because you need more reward, dopamine, and serotonin, or sense of achievement, accomplishment, or fulfillment that is consistent and frequent enough to keep you over a certain minimum baseline of reward, dopamine, serotonin, or sense of accomplishment, achievement, reward, or fulfillment that is enough to keep you able to use your powers and creative potential or abilities in the first place, which you cannot create high quality creative output without.

You cannot access your higher powers and intelligence if you are not rewarded enough to begin with. You cannot create anything that is not absolute garbage if you are low on reward from the start. And you cannot get yourself off of reward rock bottom, without having enough quantity of creative output on a regular basis. And you cannot get that quantity of creative output without compromising on quality, at least only when you’re still starting out. That is, the very first few pieces of content you create and publish have to be low quality, even if you have the skill, talent, ability, and creativity to create massive quality creative output from the start, because you are still low on dopamine, serotonin, reward, and sense of accomplishment, achievement, and fulfillment. You have to settle for less and lower your standards of creative output quality, until your creative genius kicks in. You think it is always going to be that hard forever, but that’s not true. The problem is that you do not believe that a higher quality of functioning and life exists, once you start reaching higher levels of reward, dopamine, serotonin, and sense of accomplishment, achievement, and fulfillment. You say no from the start to putting in the work, because everything is pure labor for you, because you are always low on dopamine and the above mentioned stuff. And you are judging that it’s not worth it, based upon your previous experience, which was all a struggle to get the simplest of tasks done, because you are perpetually too low on everything. Everything depletes you in an instant. So why bother.

The solution isn’t to become more powerful.

The solution is to create more, and faster, even if at the expense of quality, in order to build that momentum.

This has nothing to do with perfectionism. This is just you being low on reward, momentum, sense of creative accomplishment or achievement, and dopamine and serotonin. 

Sometimes less is more. That should be about quality, not quantity. At least at first, when you’re still just getting started.