Ultimately, I believe content creation should be a form of intrinsic self-expression to serve an audience that you define yourself. An expressive, creative outlet for your self-actualization. The moment you're [captured by their audience](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX2RpY_dj9Y), not accepting you unless you conform to their expectations and beliefs, you begin losing yourself. They won't accept the natural curiosities and changes that accompany human evolution, which begin to carry the same baggage as living an extrinsically driven, unfulfilling 9-5 job. Thankfully, we can prevent this by viewing content as art. Your profile is your personal art gallery, and people have different lenses through which they perceive your content. It's entirely subjective, which goes against the retention-driven practices Youtubers and Tweeters try to play the algorithm with. Your ideas and presentation may not resonate with everyone due to the variety of the human experience, but what matters is catering to the people you personally want to impact. The emphasis isn't on the originality, but on the delivery to your audience. All self-improvement videos consist of the same advice, just packaged in different ways to resonate with different audiences. Ali Abdaal is not some innovative productivity expert, he's just someone who's curated the best ideas he's learned and experienced from others smarter than him. Yet people follow him because he understands what his audience is and wants. The same could be said for my channel. Nothing I share is new. I'm merely following the knowledge paths that others have already paved, just adding my own experiences and personality into the mix. My channel and life purpose is to be a vessel for helping people achieve my personal interpretation of self-actualization. This is the philosophy that most speaks to me, as an altruistic yet selfish perfectionist that worries about current role models and societal values. If you think about content creation this way, then what's stopping you from sharing your ideas with the world?