Work is worship.

When you are creative, you need not be politically correct, you can be assertive and even manipulative. Creative people are bursting with energy and cannot tolerate fools. After a long hiatus, the whole world, newspapers, internet and TV channels have come together to mourn the passing of an icon whose achievements are exemplary. Hard work is an old fashioned virtue, no one admires it anymore, and it is a medieval pursuit. Instant fame at any cost is the new mantra, bad is the new good. Many actors, performers, sports person, are praised for their hard core achievements. Mike Tyson, through he was in prison, Tiger Woods, Michael Jackson, for his endless controversies and Mark Zuckerberg who is socially awkward, insecure, devious and an ego maniac. Yet media goes into a frenzy when talking about people who are rich and notorious.
Does that mean achievement wipes out all negatively? No, not quite, commercial success wipes out negatively, its all about the money honey! You can be a Mensa topper or a Phi Kappa Beta no one will notice, who cares the magic formula for success is bad + money then the whole world will be groveling at your feet. This is an incentive for crime and crassness. The quiet pursuit of goodness, the search for excellence, the need for love, truth & justice are all subverted in the quest for stardom & commercial success.
The holy grail for all professions has changed: doctors are no longer selfless healers like Albert Schweitzer, they represent big pharma companies and big bucks, lawyers no longer work for the poor and abused, they are lobbyists, Actors no longer chase great scripts, Musicians don’t devote their life to music; and we the ultimate consumers, judge them, admire them, and worship them for their commercial success and not their work.
A real creative genius like Steve Jobs was willing to live with ambiguity, he was thrown out of his own company, yet he never gave up the dream, and worked quietly for the moment of truth. And he walked into the sunset without much ado, quietly, resigned from Apple, out of work again, doing nothing, waiting for the pain to cease, while the world enjoyed the fruits of his creation. Excerpted Pritish Nandy BT TOI.