I ran into this clip from Ira Glass. I love his message here.
In my post Visual Metaphors I thought, “It’s wonderful that I can recognize good design. But I feel that I’m not where I want to be.” Ira Glass, who is a genius at post-modern storytelling, explains that this is a normal part of the creative journey. There will be a time when your vision is larger than your applied skills. His suggestion: work your way through it – persist – hold yourself accountable for doing the work, even though it may not meet the high standards of the vision you hold. Through persistence one becomes, is able to craft, a progressively higher quality product. I found Ira’s humility and honesty very encouraging.
I also hear echoes of Kolb’s cycle in here….reflective observation of what is good (the vision), hypothesis (how can I create this), active testing (doing, creating), concrete experience of doing leads to full learning experience. I also wonder about scaffolding during the process. With more scaffolding (mentoring for example) can the process be sped up? Sometimes, as in the case of Ira, there are no mentors doing exactly the same thing. One has to create their own vision at some point along the way. There’s lot of food for thought here for me.
