My buddy passed this to me yesterday.  I need to pass it on.  This weekend ended pretty rough but I bounced back quickly and reading this just reinforced the hard work behind and ahead of me.  Got to credit my producing partner, Ryan Philander, for sending this my way.  He got it from Dave Rolfe who got it from  David Evans who got it from Ira Glass.  Came in really handy today and I hope it does the same for you.  Keep pushing. “Nobody tells this to people who are beginners. I wish someone had 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 …
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