My creative collaborator and I are working on something we both think could outlast us but we keep getting stuck because they want to perfect it forever and I feel urgency to share it while we can. We're both motivated by wanting to leave something meaningful but it's paralyzing us.
More people experience this than they realize.
The desire to create lasting art becomes self-defeating when partners cannot balance refinement with the urgency of finite time.
“Where Are You with Time and mortality — death as clarifying force?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.