Your taste is why your own work disappoints you
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 still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit.
Ira Glass.
via kottke.org
Isn’t this true of so many things? Make stuff could easily be teaching – in my case or managing or planning or doing any sort of stuff.
I feel that a lot at the moment. I keep forgetting I’ve not been teaching that long and sometimes I feel like a constant disappointment. I definitely have potential but I’m just not there, yet.
This quote just makes all sorts of sense to me.
April 27, 2011
One response to Your taste is why your own work disappoints you
I felt like I was just beginning to get there with my job, then they changed it and it feels like I’m starting all over again. Which kind of sucks. But also makes it exciting!