My Advice is To Not Try
I was watching the show “How To Make It In America,” in which the main characters, Ben and Cam, are trying to start a denim line. They end up going to the John Varvatos headquarters for advice, where the head of denim there tells the duo that before they even start, they should stop. That they shouldn’t even try. That even he, with ten years experience and financial backers, couldn’t do it successfully.
Sound familiar? I’ve been playing music since I was 11 years old and I have heard these kind of comments and questions my whole life. “You know this kind of thing is hard? Nearly impossible, right?” I’m starting to think that these kind of comments have a function: they separate the wheat from the chaff, the ones who continue despite the odds and the one who don’t.
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