A short YouTube monologue (by Lennon Bone) arguing that pursuing creative projects is a responsible choice because it builds valuable real-world skills — sales, marketing, branding, content creation, media editing, and communication — that have high value in an increasingly digital economy. The speaker encourages artists to continue their creative work and affirms they deserve to do so.
You may feel like you need to do the more responsible thing by putting your creative projects aside and getting into the work that makes you money. Let's talk about why developing your creative thing, your creative business is the responsible thing. Think about how many skill sets you're learning. Sales, marketing, branding, content creation, video editing, photo editing. All of these things are really, really valuable to a ton of different places now, especially as everything moves into a more digital landscape. Not to mention just learning how to communicate better is a frickin responsible thing to do. So work on your creative thing, for crying out loud. You frickin deserve it.
