A Brand New Writers Assistant Pitched a Joke Today That Was Better Than Anything I Wrote All Week, and I Had a Real Moment of Reckoning With My Own Ego About It

A Brand New Writers Assistant Pitched a Joke Today That Was Better Than Anything I Wrote All Week, and I Had a Real Moment of Reckoning With My Own Ego About It – She has been in the room for exactly nine days. Her joke beat mine clean. I had to sit with that honestly rather than pretend it did not sting at all.