Network effects of creation
With every creation you make, you are sending out a small piece of you to scan the world for others like you.
An often undervalued aspect of creating is the network opportunities it creates. When you create something, anything, it is almost like sending a little piece of yourself out into the world to find someone new…. someone like you, or maybe someone not at all like you, but someone that likes your ideas. They don’t even have to like your ideas, they could hate them, but still choose to interact with them, and sometimes that is enough to make a new friend.
I write, and every written piece that I throw out into the internet acts like a friend. Consider the network effects of friendship. When you make a friend, that friend goes out into the world and makes new ones. Each friend of your friend, is a new friendship opportunity for you that has already been filtered out of the weeds of the mass of 8 billion people.
Writing, and generally creating, is similar. When I write something, and someone else reads it, and likes it, they usually find me and talk to me. When they don’t like it, they’re usually even more willing to come tell me that. I don’t mind either way - anyone willing to engage with me on any of my thoughts is a person I would be happy to befriend.
On top being multipliers of the presence of your brain, your creations are also omnipresent. When you sleep, when you eat, when you’re working on other things, everything you’ve created that you have launched into the void is still there, available for others to find even when you wouldn’t be available.
What a magnificent and powerful idea that you could go about life leaving pieces of your mind, your creativity, and your talent throughout the world and people will self select to interact with it. Not only can they engage with you, but if they like it, they can engage more and more. And when they do, and they like it enough to know where it came from, they come find you.