Irritations.
There’s a Breaking Bad episode where Walter White and Jesse Pinkman find a ‘fly’ in their meth lab.
Jesse: “Dude, you scared the shit out of me! When you say it’s contamination, I mean… I’m thinking like an Ebola leak or something.”
Walter: “Ebola.“
Jesse: “Yeah, it’s a disease on The Discovery Channel where all your intestines sort of just slip out of your butt.“
Walter: “Thank you. I know what Ebola is. Now, tell me. What would a West African virus be doing in our lab?“
Jesse: “So you’re chasing around a fly and in your world, I’m the idiot.“
Jesse and Walter about the contamination.
It is inevitable that we face some irritations, especially when we are doing our work.The purpose of the irritation is to distract you from your work.
The power for the creative comes from her ability to ignore the irritation and focus on her work.
If you ignore the work and engage with the irritation, you might similarly end up spending the day chasing around a housefly.