Genius, a talented person who has done all his homework.
“It’s only by actually going through a volume of work that you are actually gonna catch up and close that gap. And the work you’re making is going to be as good as your ambitions.” (1:57 – 2:05) part 3
This is probably my least favorite, yet most necessary advice I faced in Ira Glass’s interview.
Ira Glass talks about how poor the product maybe you should continue and ensures that everyone goes through that stage and you having a taste for it is good enough for you to become good at it only if you constantly do huge volume of works to close the gap between your ideals and reality.
Yes, we all know that “failure is the mother of success” and that “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” but does it have to follow a “Schedule?”
When you think of creative work, you mostly think of waiting for a great idea to suddenly pop up while living your daily life. You normally don’t think of actually having to go through series of drudgery work following a schedule to do anything with “creativity.”
I’m more of a wait-for-the-perfect-idea-then-devote-all-of-your-hours-into-the-project kind of person. Working in a timed setting, I am scared to start anything unless it seems the most appropriate. It always feels like you just don’t have enough time to make mistakes. But then going through the possible ideas or searching for inspiration takes too much time and the result is never good, as you wanted it to be.
It was quite a shocker to hear that the only way to overcome it is doing the exact thing you want to avoid the most. It always felt like working on a timed bases never allows you to really devote yourself into it, forcing you to move on after time ends. But then I guess nothing would be really accomplished if it weren’t timed. And sometimes you need to push yourself to doing stuff unless you’ll only think of it not actually putting your fingers on to it.
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