Sublime

This is what Ira Glass shared with young aspiring artists. Ira Jeffrey Glass is an American public radio personality. He is the host and producer of the radio and television series This American Life, broadcast to more than 1.7 million listeners across 500 different radio stations. and has participated in other NPR programs, including Morning Editi... See more

All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But it's like there is this gap. For the first couple years that you're making stuff, what you're making isn't so good. It’s not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not that good.

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, and I really wish somebody had told this to me.

Ira 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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Ira 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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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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