I think the key to fast progress is a fine balance of total contempt for your current output, and high confidence in your ability to do better next time.
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Artistic taste develops much faster than artistic skills. So there's always this massive gap between your current output and what you wish it were. As a result, many artists struggle with self-loathing. Arguably that's precisely what makes them good -- it's a drive to progress.
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The death of growth is to believe (always falsely) that you've "made it", that you've become an accomplished artist (or whatever else), or that you're almost there. The remedy is to hold yourself to an unbounded standard -- taste, vision.
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“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.” And that was Nabokov. Beethoven supposedly said all of his symphonies were an attempt to capture a single rich note he heard in his mind. Standards, they're a bastard.
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and have the confidence to just make something whatever that is and 
it. I for one experienced this first hand as I cared about how I look on my resume to places like @Google. Now I worry about following my ideas
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Oh and be proud of your work ofc - however bad it may seem to yourself. You did it. You made a thing.
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Hopefully you've seen this video. So good. https://vimeo.com/85040589
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I checked the thread specifically to see if someone had already posted this. It was the first thing I thought of when I read
@fchollet’s tweet.
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Doing science is very analogous.
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