Likes show up after the fact and leave before the week ends. Build on something that stays.

Approval that arrives after the work is finished cannot tell you whether the work was good, only that it was visible. It also has a short shelf life, so the same number that felt like proof on Monday is worth nothing to you by Friday. Anything you build a sense of yourself on has to outlast the week, or you are rebuilding constantly.

Ask what would still be there if nobody ever saw it. The skill you gained, the thing you can now make, the person you were steady with. Keep a private record of those, so on the day the numbers are low you still have something to read.