Text: The Gap by Ira Glass Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t ..read more

Text: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;   but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;   who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement ..read more

Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/lori_gottlieb_how_changing_your_story_can_change_your_life 中英双语播客 “Drew哥Translate” is a bilingual podcast that shares articles and stories in both English and Mandarin. Find out more at andrewzhan.com/podcast Follow Andrew on Instagram @andrewzhan     Music: 10th And 17th - A Ard, T Regis See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information ..read more

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader ..read more

"Invisible Cities" (Italian: Le città invisibili) is a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino.   中英双语播客 “Drew哥Translate” is a bilingual podcast that shares articles and stories in both English and Mandarin. Find out more at andrewzhan.com/podcast Follow Andrew on Instagram @andrewzhan     Music: Auroral - P Cuddeford, S Edwards Bouncy Optimism - O A Spink, B Howells See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information ..read more

Link: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/plane   中英双语播客 “Drew哥Translate” is a bilingual podcast that shares articles and stories in both English and Mandarin. Find out more at andrewzhan.com/podcast Follow Andrew on Instagram @andrewzhan     Music: Rising To Heaven - D Haynes Bouncy Optimism - O A Spink, B Howells See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information ..read more

What’s your most important memory of touch? 对于“触摸”，你有什么深刻的记忆？ Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/04/what-do-you-miss-most-about-touch-during-pandemic/609943/   中英双语播客 “Drew哥Translate” is a bilingual podcast that shares articles and stories in both English and Mandarin. Find out more at andrewzhan.com/podcast Follow Andrew on Instagram @andrewzhan     Music: Soft Piano - R Northcott Bouncy Optimism - O A Spink, B Howells See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information ..read more

What’s your most important memory of touch? 对于“触摸”，你有什么深刻的记忆？ Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/04/what-do-you-miss-most-about-touch-during-pandemic/609943/   中英双语播客 “Drew哥Translate” is a bilingual podcast that shares articles and stories in both English and Mandarin. Find out more at andrewzhan.com/podcast Follow Andrew on Instagram @andrewzhan     Music: Soft Piano - R Northcott Yours Truly - P Faddoul Bouncy Optimism - O A Spink, B Howells See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information ..read more

中英双语播客 “Drew哥Translate” is a bilingual podcast that shares articles and stories in both English and Mandarin. Find out more at andrewzhan.com/podcast Follow Andrew on Instagram @andrewzhan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information ..read more

Text: The Gap by Ira Glass Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t ..read more