Doing one creative endeavor well temporarily empties the creator's well
Karan Bajaj · Founder and CEO of @WhitehatJr Karan Bajaj on his journey | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast · May 16, 2021 · at 6:20
Karan Bajaj, founder of WhiteHat Jr and novelist, explains why completing a major creative work like a book or startup temporarily exhausts a creator's reservoir.
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“The great part about doing one creative activity well, whether that's a startup or a, Novel is that it takes all of what you have as a human being, I guess, and you pour it into that creative activity, and after that, in a way, the well runs dry.”
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