In less than a week, I will officially be what’s known as an MS1 - that’s Medical Student (year 1). I was talking to a friend at LACA just the other day and trying to relay to him that time has passed quickly, but I can still feel the pain of “the waiting.”
Ira Glass, Peabody Award winner and host of Chicago Public Radio’s This American Life, talks candidly about what it takes to become good at just about anything - practice. In it he defines the disparity that creative folks initially have between their tastes and their abilities. And he encourages them to keep moving forward in order to, eventually, meet the standards of their taste.