The streak you secretly keep, the page a night nobody knows about, that’s where your real résumé gets written.

Work nobody is watching accumulates differently from work done for an audience. There is no applause to sustain it, so what keeps it going is something steadier, and that steadiness is exactly what turns into skill. Years later the visible credentials describe you far less accurately than the pages nobody counted.

Keep one thing going that you do not mention. A page, a set, a small daily practice, chosen because you want it rather than because it will look like anything.