Talent is cheap – you have to be obsessed, otherwise you are going to give up.*
John Baldessari

Tension doesn’t always feel good, but there’s value in it. Tension energises and stirs awareness. Tension catalyses action. Tension makes everything more interesting. What we do with the tensions we experience is what makes life such a colourful, redemptive, tragic, joyful, and surprising experience. Tension is the wild card.**
Katherine Morgan Schafler

Try,
Fail,
Learn,
Try again,
Fail again,
Learn again,
Try again …
For such a journey, we require talent and
passion – this matters! –
It’s why you noticed it when no one else did –
And because it comes with tensions:
It begins with a problem – something is not as it might be –
It’s bigger and more complex than you first thought,
You’re not qualified to take this on,
There’s no one else,
Wherever you going to find the time?,
This is getting worse and not better,
Something in you is going to have to change …
It’s just as well you’re
obsessed.

*From Austin Kleon’s blog: You have to be obsessed;
**Katherine Morgan Schaffer’s The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control.