Whether someone else determines your work as successful or unsuccessful is ultimately simply an opinion generated by that person’s own experiences, expertise and set of assumptions. Living your life according to what everyone else might think of you is to cede control of who you are. It is to outsource your identity to a bunch of strangers who do not know you. Which is why I now try to remind myself only to care about the people I love, the people who count, or the people whose judgement I trust and respect because they know what they’re talking about.
