What Ira Glass Wishes Someone Had Told Him

February 28, 2014

Photo by Nancy Updike

Whether you’re an aspiring CEO or a fledgling novelist, you undoubtedly have days where you cannot, for the life of you, fathom how you’re going to get from where you are to where you want to be. So how do you stay the course when it feels like you’ve got a mountain to climb?

Ira Glass, host of This American Life, has the answer.

And German designer Daniel Sax has gone to the trouble of visualizing it for us in this video. Watch on for some much-needed motivation.

Or as Robert Frost would put it: “The best way out is always through.”