A reflection on the gap between creative aspirations and initial skill level, encouraging persistence and volume of work to bridge the divide, as expressed by Ira Glass.
All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But it's like there is this gap. For the first couple years that you're making stuff, what you're making isn't so good. It’s not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not that good.