Frankly, I believe everyone experiences a daily inner struggle — a battle between the roles of Creator and Consumer.
Even as I write this article, I find myself torn between focusing on the task at hand and succumbing to distractions, like pouring another cup of coffee or diving into a half-hour binge of funny YouTube videos.
It’s undeniable that we can’t exclusively embody one role. We all carry a blend of Creator and Consumer within us. However, there’s often an imbalance. Most of the time, we lean toward being consumers, which aligns with our natural tendency to absorb and utilize the information around us. Our brains, much like neural networks, are hardwired to seek patterns—even when none exist.
Personally, I’m always thinking about side projects, self-improvement, or generating new ideas. I firmly believe the life of a pure Consumer isn’t the life I was meant to lead.
To combat my procrastination, I created a personal Trello board that constantly reminds me of the tasks I still need to tackle. This simple tool motivates me to keep progressing and to focus on creating something new—whether it’s a pet project to explore new technology or simply an experiment to satisfy my curiosity.
As you might notice, I’m not great at consistently updating or implementing every idea I come across—even those I initially consider worth pursuing. I often lean on an excuse (though it really shouldn’t be one) that I have a family, a house, a car, and people I deeply value spending time with. Still, I firmly believe I should devote more of my energy to the Creator’s role than I currently manage.
As a Senior Developer/Engineer with years of experience, I feel a strong drive to channel my expertise in more meaningful and impactful ways. Progress may be slow, but I’m steadily staying up to date with new technologies, and methodologies, and building pet projects.
To facilitate this, I created a personal GitHub account where I’ve been gradually adding projects. What started as an empty profile is now a growing collection of solutions aimed at addressing real-world problems while allowing me to experiment with emerging technologies. These projects not only help me refine my skills but also keep me connected to the ever-evolving tech landscape.
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Well, it is impossible to have a world that contains only Creators because the core of an economy is Consumers. Furthermore, Creators are finding new ways of solving people’s (read Consumer’s) problems or even creating new ones. Without people who consume those solutions, they will have nothing to do.
Overall, I am not trying to make you drop everything and start creating something new immediately and desperately. No. Being a Creator means not only inventing new technologies, products and solutions but also making improvements and growing. Being only a Consumer for everyone could lead to stagnation and even degradation of humankind. I believe we (humankind) deserve a much better life with much more possibilities. Is this not such a great motivation to do it?!
In a nutshell, if you keen to live in a better world you should keep trying to spend more time in a Creator’s position, spend time improving yourself, be doing self-education, thinking out of the box, I believe that after that we will find ourselves in a new World.
This is a bit rewrite of my first-ever article on Medium from 2017.
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