TLDR:
- Preserve your creative freedom by not worrying about what is more marketable and what isn’t, just get your idea out to the world
- What was once a source of joy and inspiration will end up becoming the source of your anxiety and stress.
- You have the freedom to be truly authentic and satiate your soul in the process
- When not bound by financial constraints, you can best maximize the innovation potential
- You safeguard what you’re truly passionate about and not lose the spark you have in your eyes just because it isn’t making enough money
Maintaining the passion for things you truly love
Ideally, everyone wants to make a living off things they’re truly passionate about. And while it isn’t impossible to monetize every passion at a high level that may come to mind, as we explain in this article, some of the passion project ideas you may have might just be better off being fulfilled for the sake of personal satisfaction, and just getting your idea out to the world.
1. Preserving Creative Freedom
Some of the time, you may end up inadvertently compromising your creative freedom just to feed content your audience wants to consume so you can maximize the revenue potential. The products or contents may be much more marketable, but they’re most probably less in line with what you truly want to create.
Just look at the YouTubers who you stopped following, this is probably a big reason as to why you unsubscribed from them.
2. Avoiding Burnout
Pursuing a high-magnitude passion project may lead to a crazy burnout, which would be further fueled by the desire to make a profit. What was once a source of joy and inspiration will end up becoming the source of your anxiety and stress.
3. Fostering Authenticity
Often times, passion projects that are independent of the cash flow outlet factor essentially have the freedom to be truly authentic. You’re not pleasing people or a certain target demographic, but merely yourself for the sake of satiating your soul.
4. Nurturing Innovation
Innovation is most frequently best nurtured when it is not bound by the requirement of generating revenue. You are free to take as many risks, experiment, and innovate to your heart’s content.
5. Maintaining Passion
You’ll be able to safeguard what it is you’re truly passionate about. When you want to transform a passion project that may not necessarily have the optimal commercial scope into an income source, you’ll likely end up losing the spark you had for it owing to the root of all evil as they say: money.
You’ll end up being surmounted with far more variables like the pressure to perform, overshadowing the fact that you just want to have fun doing it.
At the end of the day, every passion project should be pursued, but while not all of them may be able to make you quit that 9-5 job you hate, with the right mindset, be it for monetary or non-monetary reasons, the primary objective should be to have fun, satiate your soul and just get your idea out to the world.