LOOK AT ME VS. LOOK INSIDE YOURSELF
Appearances or integrity? That choice is made every day with the world shifting towards a more superficial “look at me” way of being.
Slowing down, staying on a clean diet, reducing screen time, letting your personal emotions come to the surface, and using those as a base for generating conceptual ideas is a worthier creative goal than propping yourself up on temporary objects.
Here’s a great article that I can recommend for photographers wishing to connect with what they have to say (the most important part of finding your “style” IMO).