This essay is a collection of learnings, and ideas blended together to illustrate the new way to create. There are three parts to this essay you are currently reading part one, and a second and third part being published soon:

New Forms of Power (Coming Soon)

For the best experience read these essays congruently, as they are inter-dependent. Without one, the other feels incomplete.

Scarcity, Abundance, and Brilliance

In the time of renaissance artists, the world operated in a scarce mindset. Not solely around resources, but around chance and opportunity. In the 15th century, chance and opportunity were scarce. The ability to display brilliance was only given to the few. Even at that point if the few who were given the opportunity to display brilliance. Squandered this chance, they became footnotes in history. To be only remembered by those in graduate-level courses, and forgotten by the masses.

Lack of opportunity has plagued the human race for centuries. With the internet came an abundance of chance or opportunity. The chance to display brilliance came at less, and less lost cost. The need to act in self-preservation has vanished. As abundance has grown, more opportunities arise for people all over the world. So long as you leverage the internet to display your brilliance.

The effects of born circumstance is no longer a crucial factor of the limits of one's success. What is becoming more valuable is your abilities, and how you communicate your talents. To better examine the context of the time we live in, let us think about two characters.

Character One: The 15th Century Italian Artist

Let's call this man Virgilio De Medici. This man operates in a fundamentally different time. He lives in a more scarce world. A world where humans must operate with their own self-interest.

He creates in a scarce world, a world focused around big breaks and still governed by an aristocracy. To create in this world one must be a perfectionist. If he fails to seize this opportunity the chance to create impact severely diminishes. His dreams become lost in the wayside. So his perfection is justified, as he has no power to leverage. Those who see his work have the power to govern if others will see it, and even they govern if he can make a living off of his own creativity.

This man is constrained by two things power, and perfection. Two things that feed off each other and can drive the man wild. Someone having power over you will drive one mad as you are creating for your survival, as they determine how you will survive. Power drives the need to create perfect work, and perfections push one to unhealthy states of obsession.