Your taste will mature faster than your skill
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Your taste will mature faster than your skill
There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
I love this video of Ira Glass talking about the gap between your level of taste and your skill level.
You have to push through the disappointment of creating things below your level of taste and keep improving until you one day reach that level.
https://t.co/ej0PYp0MrK
James Wheltonx.comAnd so it goes for virtually any skill. There is always a gap between being an apprentice and being a craftsman. The apprentice has the taste, but not the skill. The craftsman has the taste and the skill.
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Ira Glass and What Every Successful Person Knows, But Never Says
And so it goes for virtually any skill. There is always a gap between being an apprentice and being a craftsman. The apprentice has the taste, but not the skill. The craftsman has the taste and the skill.
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James Clear • Ira Glass and What Every Successful Person Knows, but Never Says
When your taste is ahead of your skill, you are not happy with the work you produce.
Stop a minute and think about it: all the times you are dissatisfied with your work, it just means that your taste for what is good is ahead of what you are able to create.
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Stop a minute and think about it: all the times you are dissatisfied with your work, it just means that your taste for what is good is ahead of what you are able to create.
This conflict is good — in fact, it is what allows your skill to grow. You have a reference of... See more