DonkSouls 🔜 MegaplexFor those with a creative outlet, how do you keep your standards from outpacing your abilities? I've been into music production for over a decade but I always compare my work to well known artist and produces because I want to make the best music I possibly can but this often leads to me scrapping projects because they're "not good enough" without knowing how to actually make something I'm happy with, without lowering my standards.
Intaglio Whitegraven@Assprin For me, I've exercised creative output in several ways over the years.
Hand-drawing was the most difficult for me because of finding the motivation for it. It was easy to lose confidence because I would get all these ideas for drawings, but I always feared that my inadequate skill would mean I wouldn't be able to do the ideas justice (as if I had one and only one opportunity to draw that idea). But I won't improve if I don't practice at all, so it becomes a catch-22.
EDIT - I forgot to mention writing / fan fiction. For a time, I strongly insisted on having completely original ideas for everything I wrote because "who wants to read something that someone else has already written about before". A friend had to convince me that sometimes, what makes reading appealing is not just the story itself, but hearing it from a particular storyteller.