Drew哥Translate Andrew Zhan

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The Gap by Ira Glass

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not.

But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this.

And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

 

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Back To The Cool - M Thurtell

First Smile - M Andasun
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;

 

but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;

 

who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

 

中英双语播客 “Drew哥Translate” is a bilingual podcast that shares articles and stories in both English and Mandarin.

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Death Defying - P Davies, L Freeman
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Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/lori_gottlieb_how_changing_your_story_can_change_your_life

中英双语播客 “Drew哥Translate” is a bilingual podcast that shares articles and stories in both English and Mandarin.

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10th And 17th - A Ard, T Regis
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

— Carl Sagan

 

中英双语播客 “Drew哥Translate” is a bilingual podcast that shares articles and stories in both English and Mandarin.

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Music:

Rising To Heaven - D Haynes

Bouncy Optimism - O A Spink, B Howells
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"Invisible Cities" (Italian: Le città invisibili) is a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino.

 

中英双语播客 “Drew哥Translate” is a bilingual podcast that shares articles and stories in both English and Mandarin.

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Music:

Auroral - P Cuddeford, S Edwards

Bouncy Optimism - O A Spink, B Howells
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Link: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/plane

 

中英双语播客 “Drew哥Translate” is a bilingual podcast that shares articles and stories in both English and Mandarin.

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Follow Andrew on Instagram @andrewzhan

 

 

Music:

Rising To Heaven - D Haynes

Bouncy Optimism - O A Spink, B Howells
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.