Name the people who inspired you. Credit costs nothing and says a lot about your character.

Where your work came from is not a weakness to hide, though it can feel like one when you are trying to be taken seriously. Naming sources reads as confidence rather than debt, since only someone secure in what they made is comfortable pointing at what made it possible. It also tends to bring those people closer to you.

Say a name the next time you share something. One line about who taught you or what you were looking at costs nothing and changes how the work is received.