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Why a creator never sees what is brilliant

I made a comment on some art over at Flimsy Cups  a couple months back.  But tonight I am sitting here thinking about my work. You see I cant paint, I cant sing, I don't play a musical instrument.  But when it comes to colour and layout for web pages I see things that others don't.  That has made me a lot of money in the past.  I am very good at it, but.  I get performance anxiety every time I do a job. For example I do a job for a customer, I know it feels right, that it flows the way it should, that the customer experience will be calming and fluent.  But I worry.  I worry that no one will like it, that the site owner will look at other sites and see theirs doesn't add up.   Now this has never happened but I wonder how long this skill I have can keep going before I get it wrong, or it doesn't work ? I genuinely believe what I do is a form of art, and therefore as the creator I see...