"The internal debate about confidence calls to mind a well-known concept from the radio pioneer [[Ira Glass]], which could be **called the Taste/Talent Gap**. **All of us who do creative work… we get into it because we have good taste**. But it’s like there’s a gap, that **for the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good**… It’s really not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not quite that good. **But your taste—the thing that got you into the game—your taste is still killer, and your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you’re making is kind of a disappointment to you**." ([Location 1102](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01AWUTMB0&location=1102)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[taste-talent-gap]], [[progressing-slowly]], [[creativity]], [[entrepreneur]], [[ego]], [[humility]], [[bias-to-action]] **Source** -- [[202409161103 - B - Ego is the Enemy]]