I heard this last week - yes, fabulous. In any field. Thanks for finding the transcript. Dorcas Hand Houston
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of joe micheals Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:12 PM To: Caller's discussion list Subject: Re: [Callers] on being a beginner Wow! what a lesson in life. Thanks David --- On Thu, 2/16/12, Amy Cann <[email protected]> wrote: From: Amy Cann <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Callers] on being a beginner To: [email protected], "Caller's discussion list" <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 8:12 AM I am teaching a violin lesson in 45 minutes to a 16 year old girl who needs to read this. Hmm, the boy after her probably should too, and the 50-year-old after... I suspect all my lesson plans for the next week just got upgraded. Thank you, David. 2012/2/16 David Millstone <[email protected]> > The SharedWeight list grew out of a callers' class at Pinewoods. The > impetus for setting up the list was to provide a way for callers to support > each other. The list includes many who are relatively new to the caller's > mic, plus others who've been calling for some time > > I recently found something relevant by Ira Glass, host of "This American > Life" on public radio, and would like to bring it to the attention of new > callers in particular. He's talking in particular about storytelling, > making videos, but his comments apply to any creative endeavor, such as > calling dances. > > David Millstone > Lebanon, NH > > === quoted material follows: > > "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 this gap. For 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. But > your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your > taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this > phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went > through years of this. We know our work doesn't have this special thing > that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just > starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and > the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a > deadline so that every week you will finish one story. 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. And I took longer to figure out how to do > this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take > awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through." > > --Ira Glass > > === > > Here's a video clip of him talking, from which these quotes were taken > http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=BI23U7U2aUY<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY> > > If you want to see the words animated: > http://vimeo.com/24715531 > ______________________________**_________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/**mailman/listinfo/callers<http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers> > _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list [email protected] http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list [email protected] http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
