being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage: "This torment has a name in cognitive science: the 'taste-skill discrepancy.' Your taste (your ability to recognize quality) develops faster than your skill (your ability to produce it). This creates what Ira Glass famously called 'the gap,' but I think of it as the thing that separates creators from consumers." Lovely read, written by @maalfunctioning in: https://t.co/HwGGlMeYpe

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

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Ira Glass THE GAP by Ira Glass