#43 Your Anxiety About Numbers Is a Measure of How Little Your Work Matters to You

You tell yourself to focus on the work. But your hand keeps reaching for the numbers.

That is not a failure of discipline. That is the truth of what you serve. You worship approval, not the thing itself. All your talk of 'just creating' is self-deception.

Stop pretending. See what you actually want. Then ask if it's worth wanting.