Ira Glass on Why Creative Excellence Takes Time

in Life | May 29th, 2008 2 Comments

Ira Glass, host of the beloved radio show This American Life, offers a helpful reminder that excellence doesn’t come automatically. (See video below.) It takes work, years of it. And he revisits some of his early radio work in order to prove it.

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