I published two more videos on the Flourish52 YouTube channel this week.
The first is Break Negative Thoughts Using the Bracelet Method.
I also experimented with a very short video tour of my sunflower garden.
Mostly, I’m still learning about filming, editing, posting…
And I’m seeing a huge gap between where I want to be in my skills and where I’m at now.
It reminds me of this Ira Glass quote:
“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
To get through the gap, I need to produce work. The only way I can learn what I need to learn is to just keep making videos that aren’t that great.
To that end, my goal is to make and post two videos per week for a while, just so I can learn from making a lot of content.
If you’ve started some kind of creative pursuit (or you’d like to get started) I hope this is encouraging to you.
Make a lot of work. It’s the only way to bridge the gap from where you are, to where you want to be.