If You're Not Failing All The Time,

Nobody Tells People Who Are Beginners - And I Really Wish Somebody Had Told This To Me - That All Of Us Who Do Creative Work... Get Into It Because We Have Good Taste.

If You're Not Failing All The Time, You're Not Creating A Situation Where You Can Get Lucky.

What Nobody Tells People Who Are Beginners… Is That 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, And It’s Just Not That Good. It’s Trying To Be Good, It Has Potential, But It’s Not… Your Taste Is Why Your Work Disappoints You… We Know Our Work Doesn’t Have This Special Thing That We Want It To Have. We All Go Through This… It Is Only By Going Through A Volume Of Work That You Will Close That Gap, And Your Work Will Be As Good As Your Ambitions.

I Would Just Like Say To You With All My Heart Is That Most Everybody I Know Who Does Interesting Creative Work, They Went Through A Phase Of Years Where They Had Really Good Taste And They Could Tell What They Were Making Wasn’t As Good As They Wanted It To Be.

I Think The Thing That I Wish Somebody Would Ask Me Is Just To Ask About The Business Side Of The Radio Show. I Feel Like I Actually Work Very Hard To Make Sure The Business Side Of The Radio Show Runs, And No One Has Any Interest In How A Public Radio Show Is Run. And Rightly So.