Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.