There are two sides

A. If you put the bar too high it may block you. You won’t be gain from Publishing effect 🎨. You won’t be able to publish often and receive a vital feedback from the world.

B. If you put it too low there will be not a lot of people interested in your work. Work needs to be aspirational and needs quality in order for people want to be around.

So what to do?

But often it’s better to err on the side of publishing. I think it is about all our culture that most creators are too much on the A side.

I don’t believe in the word talented. I think most comes from keeping at it. Finding flow, fun, energy in whatever you are creating. It’s simple. You will keep getting better if you keep doing it. Create a situation where keeping doing it is simple.

I heard about this study, which scientific validity I am not sure about, about the very strong correlation between the amount of output and perceived quality. When we think about the most influential artists such as Mattise, Bettoven, Picasso or Mozart – they just created a ton and some of the works are masterpieces.

The outcome makes a lot of sense to me, but I could there be a lot of bad artists who had high output and low quality and nobody even knows them?

So what’s the path? The path is to increase the bar steadily, but not to steeply, learn by doing and keep publishing.