How To Upgrade Your Creative Life
Use this brilliant quote from Ira Glass
I recently stumbled upon a quote by Ira Glass — the famous producer and host of This American Life. It changed my life, and it changed the way I view creative work.
The quote is pretty famous among creative types. So famous, that Ira fears “it might be more famous than the [This American Life] show.”
Here it is:
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 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.
