Periagoge
Problem
Toward Making

Create Just for the Joy of It

Muraguide
The Pattern

Everything you make has a job — to be good enough, to earn approval, to build an audience, to pay the bills. The making without agenda — the making that is purely for the making — has gone missing.

What Mastery Looks Like

A sustained, courageous creative practice that is honest about what it costs

Helpful guides
Mura
Creativity
Peri
Recognize this pattern?

Peri can help you tell whether this pattern is really the one you’re caught in, and point you toward where to start.

The Path Forward
This pattern is guided by Mura. When you’re ready to work through it, Mura can help you find the path — or ask Peri where to start.
Work with Mura
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Patterns that often live alongside this one.

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Working through create just for the joy of it?

Tell Peri what you’re noticing, and start where it actually helps.