Feedback
Being open to feedback is easier said than done. It should be a gift, but often it feels offensive… Especially when it’s unsolicited.
Building a feedback loop during your project can make it easier to hear comments from the onlookers.
If you go into your cave to “perfect it”, it feels terrible when you bring your work into the light and someone poo-poo’s it the first moment they see it.
“How rude… don’t they know how hard I worked on this?” Yes, you worked hard, but maybe the real work is being vulnerable and showing it to safe people along the way.