Persistence:
“Nobody
tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. 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, it’s just not that good. It’s
trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s 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’t 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 its 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’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile.
It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”........Ira Glass
Let Go:
‘If you realize that all
things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not
afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.’ ~Lao Tzu
Habits:
‘You will never change
your life until you change something you do daily.’ ~Mike Murdock
Critics...Bah:
A Statue
has never been setup in honor of a Critic….Jean Sibelius
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