Needing to look good is the fastest way to never actually get good.

Getting good requires a stretch of being visibly bad, and protecting your image means refusing to enter it. So you stay in the range where you already perform well, which looks like standards and works like a ceiling. It is very possible to spend years looking competent and learning nothing, and it usually shows up later as a strange gap between how you come across and what you can actually do.

Spend one session this week on the thing you are worst at, with someone else there. Being bad in front of a person for twenty minutes buys more progress than a month of safe practice.