Everything you do the first time sucks! Sex! Long division! Writing lengthy diatribes to help people feel less lonely and more permanent! And yet some people grow up to be writers or math teachers or absolutely fierce in bed! Ever hear a fourth-grade band play “You’re A Grand Old Flag?!” It’s like listening to elephants orgasm! And yet, one of those kids is going to grow up to play a jazz club on a Friday night. Everything sucks at first. Very few things suck forever. You don’t train for a marathon by running a marathon over and over. You build up to it. Slowly. And…
It isn’t that you don’t know what’s holding you back. It isn’t that you don’t know how to succeed. It isn’t that you don’t want it bad enough or that you don’t believe enough or that you aren’t close enough with your god or your inner soul or the universe. They’ll tell you you’re lazy. They’ll tell you that you don’t have what it takes. They’ll tell you…