As someone who is "finally" starting to find success in my early 30's, this is something I think of a lot. Think of all of the famous people you know of, who a

As someone who is "finally" starting to find success in my early 30's, this is something I think of a lot. Think of all of the famous people you know of, who are doing great work right now. Now look at how old some of them are. Steve Carrell is 48 years old. Jon Stewart is 48. Louis C.K. is 44. All of them are great at what they do, but how old were they when they finally reached the top of their professions? Sure, you can think of small gigs they had in the decades before, but just think of how long they had to work at what they did to get where they are. I always wonder how often they came close to quitting. (I remember hearing an interesting story about this from Louis C.K., but I don't remember the details) To do great creative work, you not only have to love it enough to work that hard at it, yes, you have to have incredible taste to always be finding that one little thing that you can improve - for decades and decades.