What are you watching on YouTube now ?

[BenitoChavez]

As it turns out, eating plastic is bad for you! Or more specifically foods wrapped in plastic, which is basically everything.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Part of this is really "Growing up rural in the 1990s", but fine. Love YouBetcha.

 

[Kyriakos]

The video is about the fact that to create means to reflect on the world within yourself, which is created by interacting with the world around you.

I don't have many artist acquaintances at the moment. Once upon a time there was a graphic artist who lived close to me, we talked now and then about how it is to want to do things that are not paid for in Latvia. What it's like to work a non-art job to be able to afford to spare time to do them.

This video highlights several things:

Creative people:
1) Are very sensitive
2) Feel the need to give to the world
3) Create such analogies in their inner world about processes, events, feelings, emotions that logically thinking doctors can consider them mentally ill
4) Has a strong need for alone time

It concludes with a mention of the Japanese book and concept Ikegai, which says that a person is able to live in society if he has found a thing that

1) He has talent for
2) He likes
3) is paid for and can pay all the bills
4) society needs

At the same time, it was mentioned that a large number of artists who do not know how to do anything else but create, do not want to live in society at all.

And that's why it's unfortunate, because a person can't fully live without society in a healthy form and for a long time.

I found the video really depressing. A person can let go of his identity as an artist and live with a different feeling if he has at least one other community, profession, position, society to which he belongs.

I coach chess, for example, and chess coaches are different from writers.
I teach Latvian and English, translate, and linguists are different from chess coaches.
I fix computers, and IT specialists are different from linguists.

Therefore, my self-esteem does not depend so much on whether someone liked my latest story, or whether one person said that they read a new way of looking at the world there, and it excited them.

At the same time, compliments don't boost my ego so much, because I know that growth and excellence is a gradual process over many years, and in the humanities and arts, it's also a bit relative.

I do something because I love the process. The end result is never meant to be 10/10, never perfect. I will get wiser and do better. It always happens.

The most important thing for a creative person is to understand himself. Because you are your first critic, first fan and supporter.

@Kyriakos There is Kafka in the video

I'd say that it is common for artists (not ubiquitous, just common) to have an inner web of connections which are particular. Those resurface time and again as "motifs" in their work. The connections can be irrational from the outside, but can't be irrational from the inside - since no system is irrational according to its own principles. However, a system can lead to ridiculous convolutions, if its axioms guide it there (imagine a system where instead of two opposite half-lines of positive and negative numbers, you had to the left the negative numbers, to the immediate right the positive numbers, but then another half line of negative numbers which are "more negative" than the original line. In such a system, there is indeed one final positive number (well, at least if we assume the line doesn't extend past the second negative half-line).
In some cases, particular systems can lead to not understanding things at school, for purely psychological reasons. Kafka mentions in his diaries that as a kid/teen, each year he was certain he would fail the class. I suppose that passing all of his classes was due to discovering ways to see patterns while retaining the sense of not understanding. If it was a matter of insufficient intelligence, on the other hand, provided they had passed, you'd more than likely get someone who doesn't understand they don't understand (=treating the mental tricks as understanding).
On the other hand, it can be easily argued that if you have a love for something, you are far more likely to seek understanding than a shortcut - whether shortcuts exist or not.