Ira Glass and What Every Successful Person Knows, but Never Says

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... See more

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.