All of this applies to modeling and moviemaking, too. I identified especially with the misery of realizing that a design isn't working and isn't ever going to work, but not being able to come to grips with the idea of starting over. It's also hard to let go of that automatic "I'm a creative genius and the criticism of other people is worthless and retarded because they don't see it the way I see it in my head" mentality, but time and time again it turns out they were right. Well, mostly.

Fantastic read.