Watch your own game tape without flinching. The camera caught everything your pride edited out.

Memory of your own performance is heavily revised in your favor, not deliberately, but because attention and ego work together during the event. Recording removes that filter and shows the moments you were not really engaged, the shortcut you took, the effort you thought you gave. It is uncomfortable in exact proportion to how useful it is.

Record one session, or reread one piece of your own work with the sound of your intentions turned off. Look for the two things you would rather not see. Fix one of them next time out.