{"id":1112,"date":"2012-06-13T13:23:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T20:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2012-06-13T13:42:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T20:42:41","slug":"second-thing-of-the-day-which-i-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/education\/second-thing-of-the-day-which-i-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Second thing of the day which I believe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners
\nI wish someone told me.
\nAll of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste.
\nBut there is a gap.
\nFor 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.
\nBut your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you.
\nA lot of people never get past this phase, they quit.
\nMost people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this.
\nWe know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have.
\nWe all go through this.
\nAnd if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is
\nDO A LOT OF WORK
\nPut yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story.
\nIt is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap
\nand your work will be as good as your ambitions
\nAnd I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met.
\nIt’s gonna take a while. It’s normal to take a while.
\nYou’ve just gotta fight your way through it.
\n– Ira Glass<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 a gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[7,28,10,21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20FV9-hW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iamron.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}