RE: The Golden Rule: If You’re Good at Something, Never Do it For Free...
The fear of rejection is as bad as the fear of failure.
An alcove writer, a poet of closed notebooks, a lone painter in the attic, can build wonderful dreams, is able to draw a rainbow in the darkest gray mind. But the ghosts are his own fears that will prevent him from showing that talent. He will prefer to stay broken, he will accept a yoke that he does not deserve. Only because of the fear of being rejected.
This state of conformism is lethal for any human being. But to get there many times the road has been plagued by immature rejections by parents, an education with abuse a continuous mental work that has only managed to place that person in a subsoil of which he does not allow himself to emerge.
Again you surprised me with your right thoughts.
All best, Piotr.