Do You Feel Like You've Gotten Better?

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I haven't personally struggled as much with that like feedback loop of like doubting it. Like if I get positive feedback, I feel like that is reassuring to me but also feeds into me thinking, oh, it's because I over-prepared. How do you not let the negative weigh more heavily on you than the positive? Because that's like human nature as we know. So I think that's really difficult, but I will say from my experience, I haven't lived on that part of the cycle of it as heavily as I think the front side of it.

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