Ira Glass on Storytelling

I literally went through a few phases during my practicum where I felt that I sucked. I was terrible. I was not good at this and even though I knew that my heart was in the right place and my passion and calling lay with teaching, I genuinely thought I was no good.

It took this video to remind me that where I wanted to be was not going to be reached within 3 months. It probably won't be reached in my entire career, but that the point of this job and the point of a calling is to work. Be creative. Work hard and the results you search for will come.

This was pedagogical inspiration and it became both a huge wake-up call and a piece of pedagogical inspiration that will stay with me for a very long time.