That video was on my recommendations on youtube.
I think the problem with attention (at least for me) comes when I consider attention as profit. Like "I am already an adult and I MUST find a work, I CAN'T depend on my father anymore so I NEED to make my art profitable", and so, when it doesn't get the attention I want (aka does not help me make money) I get depressed.
Having worked for five years at teaching while working on my creative projects for free, now that I lost my job I wonder when I will get there, when will my art help me make a living or rather I would have to work on something else and do art at the same time forever?
That's what depresses me the most and what blocks my creativity. I mean, yeah, we can make something out of simple love for it, because we are passionate about it, but the problem comes as we grow older and have to pay the bills.
I know he's right, craving attention is not good as it isn't good to make art just for the money. So, should we have a secondary job to pay the bills and stay late at night doing what we truly love? I don't know the answer, but what I am sure is that what really makes me happy is drawing and so, I wish one day I may be able to make a living out of it.