Short monologue urging people to honor their artistic impulses and to adopt a persistent "progress mode" toward desired life direction. The speaker links honoring creative urges with avoiding regret and frames progress mode as the path to personal freedom even when pursuing difficult aims.
If you have an artistic impulse and you don't honor it, it will eat you alive. That's the truth of it. There will be regret there. And you have to see that proactively and honestly. And this is one reason we switch into progress mode. Even when it's hard, we stay in progress mode to the direction that we desire in our life. What we want to do, who we want to become, even when it's difficult. That is the path of personal freedom. That is the path of progress mod.
