Developing skills that are as good as your taste comes down to habits. The ability to “fight your way through” as Glass says, hinges on your consistency to show up and do the work. Can you build the habits required to make small improvements day after day?

Commit to the process and you'll become good enough, soon enough. Put in a volume of work. Close the gap.

"It takes a while. It’s gonna take you a while. It’s normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that."

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

Artists and creators become so because they feel they have a special taste to share, a special view of the world that is significant and different. But to really be able to bring it to life and share it with the world takes time and work.

keep pushing. Don’t chalk things up to “just a dream.” It can be something small like making it to the gym or something big like buying that one-way ticket to Buenos Aires, but if you keep pushing enough, it’s going to be a reality instead of a dream.

"I felt like an amateur when I started writing publicly. It doesn’t make you weak or weird or unqualified. It’s normal."

If you’re uncertain and unsure and you doubt that you can make it all work. That’s normal. It's normal to feel unsure when moved to a new country. It's ok to feel uncertain when starting a new business.