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When nurturing others depletes personal creativity

I love my day students but teaching takes everything I have and I come home empty with nothing left for my own practice

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The generous act of fostering others' creative development can inadvertently starve one's own artistic needs, creating a sustainable but hollow existence.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined creative life — Murasaki's synthesis?”

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