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How do I stop comparing my art to everyone else's?

Comparison is a thief that never runs out of targets. There will always be someone further along, someone with more attention, someone whose work makes yours feel small. If you measure your worth against them, you have handed strangers the power to decide whether you are allowed to feel like an artist. Your vision does not need to be better than anyone's. It needs to be yours. No one else stands exactly where you stand or sees exactly what you see. That is not a small thing. It is the only thing you truly own in this work, and it cannot be out-competed because no one else has it. The doubt will not fully leave, so stop waiting for it to. Instead, starve the comparison. For one week, make something without showing it to anyone and without looking at what others are making. Just you and the work. Remember what that feels like. That is where your real voice lives.

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