# 122. Let's Talk About: What It Takes To Get To 5 Minutes of Brilliant Work! Making Lemonade With Jordan Morpeth
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- Visual Arts
“You must write three brilliant hours of comedy to write 5 great minutes.” - Mike Birbiglia.
This is a concept to get yourself through life most of the things you will do as a young person in your career and your life.
When it comes to creative mastery there is no substitute for a quantity of work. Quality of work comes from repetition.
Pablo Picasso drew on a napkin, while in a bar. A woman came up to him and asked may I have that napkin, as he threw it aside.
He replied, “certainly, that will be $60,000.”
The woman replied “$60,000 but you drew that in five minutes, on a napkin!”
Pablo replied, “yes but it took me 60 years of practice to simply draw that in five minutes.
“You must write three brilliant hours of comedy to write 5 great minutes.” - Mike Birbiglia.
This is a concept to get yourself through life most of the things you will do as a young person in your career and your life.
When it comes to creative mastery there is no substitute for a quantity of work. Quality of work comes from repetition.
Pablo Picasso drew on a napkin, while in a bar. A woman came up to him and asked may I have that napkin, as he threw it aside.
He replied, “certainly, that will be $60,000.”
The woman replied “$60,000 but you drew that in five minutes, on a napkin!”
Pablo replied, “yes but it took me 60 years of practice to simply draw that in five minutes.