chasing ego boosts never ends well. find meaning and purpose elsewhere.
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Leggo your ego
Assume responsibility as purpose
whenever I let one get in, it feels like my creative abilities are diminished for a period of time.
Although it is important to distinguish your own goals from other people's false perceptions and false claims and other bullshit.
For example, I never chased "ego boosts" and I've been quite open about *why* I did what I did. However, I have heard about 8+ years of people twisting words, stating claims that were never made, implying meaning that was never there.
No matter what you do, where, how or why, you cannot beat people being idiots and assholes. Especially not if they're invested in the lies and deception.
In my case, I actually *challenged* these people to produce there claims as to align all the supposed claims, lies and deception and it never happened. I also challenged them to attack me based on my work instead of on supposed (false) claims. It never happened. Some people are too invested in the lies to want to hear the truth.
And be the best at it!