Ira Glass has a video that is the best thing I’ve ever heard in terms of advice for people starting out. It boils down to him saying that you have to do a huge volume of work. That seems obvious by itself, but what he’s saying is that when you start out, you presumably have really good taste, but your ability to create work that lives up to that standard doesn’t exist yet. So, you make stuff and think it’s bad because it’s not as good as your taste knows it could be. That can be very demoralizing because when you’re working and making stuff you don’t like, it’s hard to continue.
Alex Cornell from his interview with The Great Discontent.

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