Most Creative endeavors are insane. They are also unreasonable and lonely endeavors.
Most people who start out on them stop when they discover that are toiling alone on an effort no one else is interested in. They hear the "we are not interested" loud and clear.
And then they quit. The reason? Because they want to stay connected.
If you want to understand our innate desire to keep connected, try watching a movie, eating in a restaurant, going out on a vacation or going on a log run without having any other human being accompany you.
Uncomfortable?
That right there is the fear of being alone.
This fear is one of the major reasons why you are afraid of silence (even when it is productive) and why you love noise.
This same fear stops you from going on movies that you really want to watch but none of your friends want to, or eat at places where your friends do not want to eat, or go on adventurous vacations where your family cannot go with you.
The same fear of being alone, stops you from implementing brand new ideas and working on those ideas, month after month, even if no one uses your application or reads your blog.
Understanding this fear is the first step towards conquering it.
Changing your lifestyle to stop worrying about others is the next step.
What do you want to do this weekend? Go running? Play a sport? Go on a long walk? Catch a very different kind of a movie or drama?
Everyone around you seems busy, tired, too lazy to get out of the home or just not interested in that activity?
Why not do it anyway?
And the same holds true for the applications that you always wanted to build.
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