Feb 05, 2015 Ira Glass on the Creative Process
Ira Glass is a well known radio personality and current host of the nationally syndicated show, This American life. An excerpt of his has been circulating for a few years now providing some perspective on the life of being a creative and the expectations a creative typically sets for themselves. More specifically, diving into the seemingly never ending battle of “is my work as good as how I define ‘good’ to be?” – a universal theme that any individual can really relate to. It can be paralyzing at times but if you push through, even if it takes years, you will eventually breakthrough that wall. Just as Thomas Edison once said, “genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” …or my favorite version of that adage, “genius is 1% luck, 2% inspiration, and 3% perspiration.”