It is a good baseline to start with the expectation that no one will read your book, no one will see your art, no one will listen to your music, no one will wat

It is a good baseline to start with the expectation that no one will read your book, no one will see your art, no one will listen to your music, no one will watch your videos, no one will listen to your presentation, no one will use your software, no one will buy your product etc. As someone who works at an art school, the thing that differenciates a beginner from a successful graduate isn't that they can physically do a thing — it is that they go one of two ways: 1. They have a good and current knowledge of what people would find interesting and do things among those lines 2. They have a precise idea of what they themselves find interesting and by their arts manage to make others interested Both can work pretty well, I like the latter more, because it often leads to more interesting and unique takes. But that means when you do a book, music, video, presentation, etc. it should be a thing that you yourself would find useful, interesting and good even if it was made by your worst enemy. The problem with the art of many amateuer artists is that they think their stuff is already good or interesting because they made it or because they had a great time/extremely deep thoughts doing it. But those are all things someone from the outside won't see. You won't be able to make a good presentation if you have never given it a thought what you think a great presentation is and you never asked yourself where your presentation would land on that scale. And now do that times a hundred and you might get good.