I think that the avoidance of hurting some one's feelings or offending someone is bigger than pain. People who love you and care about you will often try to dissuade you from doing it. So be really careful about who you show your portfolio to, ever. And i know the first years that i was in the book business, i got really bad feedback from people who cared about me because they didn’t understand what i was doing or where i was doing it,. And i took it to heart, and it paralyzed me. But only when I met michael cater, and then i met john boswell, two people from the book business who understood, who were enrolled in the journey