The crooked drawing on your grandma’s fridge isn’t there because it’s good. It’s there because you made it. That’s what meaning looks like.

Quality and meaning are two separate measurements, and they get confused constantly. A drawing goes on a fridge because of who made it and what it cost them, not because it would survive a critique. That is not grandparents being soft. It is an accurate read of what the drawing actually is.

Some of what you make will be judged on quality and some of it will not, so know which one you are doing. Make something this week purely because you are the one making it, then give it to someone who reads it the right way.