Enjoy the hype, but don’t buy it. The people hyping you today will hype someone else next month.

Praise is mostly about the person giving it and the moment they are in. It moves to whoever is newest, and it will move away from you for reasons that have nothing to do with your work getting worse. Letting it feel good is fine. Letting it become your measurement puts your steadiness in somebody else’s hands.

Decide now what counts as a good week for you, in things you can see without an audience. When the attention comes, enjoy it for a day and then go check your own list.