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The horrible gap you end up living in #lifephylosophy #shorts

20 May 2026 · 1 min

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Ira Glass's idea: when you get better at something, you see excellence faster than you can make it. That gap between what you want and what you can do lasts months or years. Your standards keep rising, so the work never feels finished.

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Every time you get better at something, you also get better at perceiving what excellence looks like. So Ira Glass, who is the American broadcaster for This American Life, he says that when you decide you want to be good at something, you get the tools to perceive quality faster than you get the ability to create quality. So you end up with this horrible gap where you know what you're trying to do, but you're not good enough to do it. And that gap might last a year, Or 2 years, or 6 months, who knows? But you've got this gap in front of you where you know what good looks like now, but you can't produce it. But then when you lift that standard, so too your ability to perceive quality gets nuanced and further refined.