I love Ira Glass and This American Life, so it came as a surprise to hear that is progress from mediocre work to phenomenal work took over a decade.
The video below is Glass explaining how creative people work and the seemingly endless gap they will encounter when going from their early creative work, which is admittedly poor, to their later work, which is often brilliant. He encourages creative people to not give up when their work isn’t up to their personal snuff at first, but keep chugging along until their expectations match their output.
Props to @caseorganic for Tweeting this.
