"The space for perfectionism is in the last 10% of the project, not the first 40%"

This episode is a second installment with Bill Wrigley, a visual arts teacher at Stuyvesant High School, and this time we talked more about impostor syndrome, Mr. Wrigley’s lukewarm coffee metaphor for the way we make art and live our lives, as well as broader takes on education, self-sabotage, politics, not having space to cry, and Wes Anderson movies.

Things mentioned:

Adam Ellis "If you go for it, you'll live"

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain

Kazimir Malevich's Black Square

James Brown

"I want to thank you" pier in Lower Manhattan (we see it from our school's windows)

Jimmy Carter

Overton window

Actor David Thewlis

Wes Anderson's film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou