You develop a new concept, write a new poem, ideate an alternate framework. Yet, it does not go beyond you.
Before anyone has seen it, you decide that it is not good enough and is well below the expected standards. These are your standards, which have just crushed all innovation and creativity without a second thought.
If you had shown it to someone else, and they rejected it outright with such haste, just as you have, how might you react? How else are we going to get better?
To grow and develop, we need to experiment, test, trial, evaluate, and reinvent. It is the practice of doing, time and time again, that will get it to the point of good enough.
We are kinder when we have no expectations of excelling or being proficient. You take photos every day you share with others, make bad jokes without concern, and participate in activities you are pretty horrific at, yet you do it again and again.
And yes, your photos will get much better, people start to enjoy your jokes, and you are finally pretty decent at it.
Not good enough today, but it will be better tomorrow.
