Here's the hard truth about getting great.

It takes time and dedication.

It takes a willingness to accept that you're not yet good enough.

It takes the ability to stare at the places that you know that you're weak,

to really look at those things and not let it affect your sense of self-esteem

and not let it affect your sense of self-worth so that you can still get the momentum going.

But you have to understand that in the beginning,

we're all terrible.

And as Henry Cartier-Bresson said,

your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

And so the thing that really makes great art are the people that continue to push

and the people that continue to work and face how inadequate they are

and really understand that at the end of the day, greatness is a craft.

Greatness is a process.

Greatness is a habit.

Greatness is the little things that you do every day over time,

going out every day on the frayed of whether or not this is one of the 10,000 terrible things that you're going to do.

It's being unafraid to make those mistakes,

it's being unafraid that you're not yet great.

And as Marianne Radmaker said,

courage doesn't always roar.

Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying,

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