So much of what Mike Birbiglia says fits with what my experience has been in creativity and in art.  A lot of what he said also makes me feel like there is so much more that I want to do with my art practice, my teaching practice, and my life.  When I first started studying art at BYU I felt like I was drowning.  I kept telling my friends and my family that I didn't know "what they wanted me to make."  I worried a lot about failure, it's still kind of hard not to.  And I still sometimes find myself waiting to do things.  I often feel like I'm standing on the edge of things.  I feel like I have ideas that I'm passionate about but I also have this lingering feeling that I probably won't actually have time to make that work, or that it might not work.  I love that he says we need to be bold enough to make stuff that's small but great.  Maybe I won't have time to do EVERYTHING but I will have time to do somethings and I might as well make them great and learn from my failures.  

I think it's really important to take feedback from others.  It's something that I need to do more.  I definitely feel like our taste is better than our art sometimes.  That's how I feel about art and especially about design.  I know what good design is, and I know that I still don't know how to make it.

I really love this though.  I think I've come to realize that I want to push my students to do these things, but some of them aren't even things that I do!  I've realized this semester that that's the next step.