NAIVETE AND GRIT...

"But there was a problem. At age eighteen, I had absolutely no gifts. I could not sing or dance, and the only acting I did was really just shouting. Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent."

"Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do."

"I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining*, and four were spent in wild success." 

- Steve Martin
*: boy, how important is doing (vs. just seeing)...fourteen years on that...

...100% GSB