Growth makes you less interested in being impressive and more interested in being useful.

Trying to be impressive puts the audience in charge. Every choice gets filtered through how it will look, which quietly rules out anything unglamorous, slow or hard to explain. Being useful points at the problem instead of the reaction, and useful people end up more respected than performers anyway, just later and by fewer people whose opinion counts.

Ask one question this week: what does this actually need. Then do that, even when nobody is watching. Notice how much lighter the work gets once the audience has left the room.