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Nobody tells people who are beginners,
and I really really wish somebody had told this to me...
is that all of us who do CREATIVE WORK,
like y,know
we get into it and we get into it because
we have good taste.
but it's like there's a gap.
That for the first couple years that you're making stuff,
what you're making isn't so good, OK?
It's not that great.
It's trying to be good, it has ambition to be good,
but it's not quite that good.
But your taste, the thing that got you into the game,
your taste is still killer and your taste is good enough
that you can tell that what you're making is kind of a
disappointment to you, y'know what I mean?
A lot of people never get past that phase and a lot of people
at that point they quit.
And the thing I would just like to say to you with all my
heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting
creative work,
they went through a phase of years! where they had really good
taste and they could tell what they were making
wasn't as good as they wanted it to be.
They knew it fell short.
It didn't have the special thing that we wanted it to have
and the thing what to do is... Everybody goes through that.
And for you to go through it, going through it right now,
if you're just getting out of that phase
you've got to know it's totally normal
and the most important possible thing you can do
is do a lot of work.
Do a huge volume of work.
Put yourself on a deadline so that every week or every month
you know you're going to finish one story.
Because it's only by actually going through a volume of work
that you are actually going to catch up and close that gap.
And your work you're making will be as good as your ambitions.
In my case, like I took longer to figure out
how to do this than anybody I've ever met.
It takes a while.
It's going to take you a while.
It's normal to take you a while and you just have to
fight your way through that.
-Ira Glass from a video entitled: "Ira Glass on Storytelling Part 3"
short by David Shiyang Liu subs and translation to Polish by: Damian Szturc