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Ira Glass and What Every Successful Person Knows, but Never Says
THE GAP by Ira Glass
vimeo.comIra Glass, the creator and host of the influential NPR show This American Life. In an interview about radio production and storytelling that has since been extensively shared online, Glass offers the following advice: All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. . . . But it’s like there’s a gap. That for the first cou
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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. 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... See more
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Our tastes make us what we are, but they can also cast a shadow over our own work. “All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste,” says public radio personality Ira Glass. “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. B
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... See moreIra Glass, which could be called the Taste/Talent Gap. All of us who do creative work . . . 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 . . . It’s really not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s
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