When you're exercising your creative potential, it feels like flying.

The work doesn't drag you down, it lifts you up.

Unfortunately, the work necessary to bring an idea to fruition in the real world is a mix of creative and banal.

The banal parts are the parts that must be done, but that you don't find creatively energizing.

The banal parts are a slog that can feel soul-crushingly dull.

The 1x parts often include crank-turning work to execute on something to a good-enough bar.

The 10x parts are trying to convince another person to do a given task you can't do yourself (either you don't have the skill or the time).

The 100x parts are overhead trying to convince multiple other people to simultaneously coordinate.

As a context gets more mature, or an organization scales, the proportion of creative part to banal part changes significantly.

This is one of the reasons that it's good to find the creative core that motivates you and emphasize that.

You might distract yourself a bit from the banal parts in the short term, but you'll gain more energy to then invest in the banal parts more sustainably.