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
“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
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