Let your taste drive you, not kill you

“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. 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. And the thing I would say to you with all my heart…if you’re going through this phase, it’s totally normal, and the most important possible thing you could do is do a lot of work, a huge volume of work…It’s only by going through a volume of work that you’re going to catch up and close that gap.” — Ira Glass (via kottke.org)

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