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When creative mentors push commercialization over artistic integrity

My mentor keeps saying my work needs to be more commercial but every time I try to make it sellable it feels like I am betraying something essential about why I started creating in the first place

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between authentic expression and market viability creates a crisis of creative identity when external guidance conflicts with internal conviction.

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