Came across my desk tonight and it speaks to how I feel sometimes… but I keep on plugging along …<\/p>\n
From Ira Glass . . . watch the short video if you have a few minutes… he shares and criticizes some of his early work..<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat nobody tells people who are beginners \u2014 and I really wish someone had told this to me . . . is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it\u2019s just not that good. It\u2019s trying to be good, it has potential, but it\u2019s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase. They quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn\u2019t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it\u2019s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I\u2019ve ever met. It\u2019s gonna take awhile. It\u2019s normal to take awhile. You\u2019ve just gotta fight your way through.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ira Glass<\/a> is the host and producer of This American Life<\/a>. Click here<\/a> for the full original video (runtime 5:20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Came across my desk tonight and it speaks to how I feel sometimes… but I keep on plugging along …<\/p>\n