How do I find my own compass again after absorbing everyone's doubts?
You have become the one who steadies everyone else's work, holding all their uncertainty so the team can move. That is a gift you give them. But carrying everyone's doubt for so long has quietly buried your own sense of what you think, and now you reach for your compass and find only their voices. That loss is real, and it comes from generosity, not failure. Your taste did not disappear; it got crowded out. To hear it again you need space that is only yours, away from the room full of other people's opinions. Make something with no critique attached, or spend time simply deciding what you like and why, with no one to please. Your own judgment returns when you give it room to speak without immediately weighing it against everyone else's. This week, take one small design decision and make it purely on your own read, without polling anyone. Notice what you actually believe. You have spent so long tuning yourself to others that you forgot you are an instrument too. The compass is still in there. It just needs you to stop listening outward long enough to feel which way it points.