Two paragraphs before he says this that explains a lot of his frustration IMHO: > Jugglers don’t have to perform difficult tricks to entertain people, because

Two paragraphs before he says this that explains a lot of his frustration IMHO: > Jugglers don’t have to perform difficult tricks to entertain people, because audiences generally don’t know what’s difficult. Juggling five objects is 10 times harder than juggling four, and six objects is 10 times harder than five, but to most people, five objects in the air looks like six, and six looks like five. A truly difficult juggling trick doesn’t necessarily register intuitively as difficult. It just looks like a bunch of weird shit crossing in the air. That I think has two consequences (that the author alludes to btw): 1- You're working hard to please a crowd of clueless chumps that you have no respect for. 2- You're vulnerable to hacks who can impress the public with easy tricks and are a hundred times or a thousand times less talented than you, and who don't even work hard. Sometimes being too good makes it impossible to go on.