Ira Glass

I understand his points and I completely agree with what he is saying but he totally bores me. I feel he could get his point across in about a minute and it took him over 5. However, it takes a lot of learning and courage to be able to look back on your past work and really critique it harshly. Think about if it's anything that you would produce now and if you would change it and how. I really like the fact that he can laugh at something he thought was great before and think that it is awful now.

I would be lying if I said that I've never done that with my own work. I have looked at stories and poems I wrote back in middle school or early high school and laugh at them. Or even just laugh at how my thoughts were back then. My friend kept a "note box" with all of the notes we passed back and forth between us and one of our other friends in middle school. Last summer my friend moved away and we open up this note box for good times and we were suirprised. We laughed a lot for sure but to look back at how our mentality was back then is unbelievable.

I guess you really don't notice how your thoughts and points of view change and evolve unless there is hard evidence to look back on like a story or poem or even a radio news cast. You never know what you might learn when digging through old work that you would have never expected to make you feel that way.