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this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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It's very common to feel this way about your own work. Your eye is trained in both a broad sense and in the context of your own work, consequently you see a thousand flaws that a layman couldn't even consider and even an outside expert would likely shrug off. Ira Glass called this "the gap".
The way to move forward is both make the process as enjoyable as possible and also discipline yourself into doing it regularly enough to improve and flourish. I wish you luck.
This is going to sound insane but thank you so much for this comment!! I've had the concept of "the gap" in my head since 2012 thanks to Gavin Aung Than's comic strip version of Ira's quote, but somewhere along the line I completely forgot the source of both the quote and the comic and had never been able to rediscover it until you mentioned it here.