tumbledthoughts asked:
Was re-watching the Ira Glass video on storytelling, where he talks about the time it takes for your creative output to catch up with your own taste, and it made me wonder: Is there anything still around that you created that you are embarrassed by? Or did you do like Mahler, who destroyed most of his early works?
The thing about creativity and taste is that they’re always changing. What I thought was great work in 1998 was great work for me in 1998. To judge it solely through my current point of view would be to discredit how I felt at the time. The older I get, the more refined my creativity becomes, but I’m also a very different person now than I was 12 years ago.
Everything you create is useful. You learn from it, you obsess on it, you stress about what people think of it, you tear it all down and do it again. In the end, your specific tastes don’t matter nearly as much as your work ethic and your desire to constantly create great stuff.
