Don’t Run Out of Somedays For most of us, the reality is this: We assume that we will make our dreams come true someday, but then we run out of somedays, and we die. Sometimes we are hit by a bus. Sometimes we’re shot by a stray arrow. Sometimes cancer sneaks up on us. A shark eats us. We fall into a volcano. We are hit by lightning. Sometimes we

Creation in a vacuum is a difficult thing. Eventually you need to hear from people you trust, and oftentimes the sooner, the better. This is terrifying for many creative people, because showing your work before it is complete — and sometimes even after it’s complete — requires an enormous amount of vulnerability and courage.

creator. By learning about the lives of people in a variety of creative fields, we can eliminate misconceptions and demystify the creative process. By learning about how the makers of things made their things, we can oftentimes see a path for ourselves.

But that doesn’t make you terrible. It doesn’t make you incapable of making something great someday. Judge the work. Critique the work. Despise the work. Just don’t judge yourself. Good people make terrible things. Talented, creative, brilliant people make truly terrible things. Judge the work. Not the person. Despise the product but love yourself.

We must accept this if we want to make something good. We must be willing to fail again and again and again in order to find our way to goodness and, sometimes, greatness.

The expression should instead be this: “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of progress.” “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” establishes an expectation of good, when in truth, creative people — the makers of stuff — make terrible things all the time.

“Just because we do bad things doesn’t mean we are bad people.” — UNKNOWN

Be open to new finish lines. Be willing to imagine new finish lines.

He’s a man who works in a visual medium but who is constantly shifting his finish line.