I've always liked this quote by Ira Glass "Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your tast…
> Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this.
Many people who strive to excel feel this always to an extent via higher expectations on themselves than people around them hold.