If you’re results-focused, if the trust you had in your self has become a fragile cycle in need of reassurance, shipping your work to the world is fraught. And so it might be easier to stay warm in the narcissism of always saying yes. Or always saying no. But that surrender means you’ve sacrificed the most generous (and frightening) thing you can do: trusting yourself enough to show up and ship the work. The right work to the right people for the right reason.
