{"id":5633,"date":"2013-12-08T23:43:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T15:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5633"},"modified":"2013-12-08T23:43:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T15:43:54","slug":"not-everyone-is-going-to-like-the-thing-you-made-and-thats-okay-wil-wheaton-dot-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/08\/not-everyone-is-going-to-like-the-thing-you-made-and-thats-okay-wil-wheaton-dot-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and that\u2019s okay &#124; WIL WHEATON dot NET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was younger, I would have completely ignored the first one, and obsessively focused on the second one to the point of feeling shitty about myself. Part of having Imposter Syndrome is believing that people who praise you are dupes, while the people who criticize you can actually see through everything. But the thing is, the guy who isn\u2019t thrilled has every right to feel that way, and I don\u2019t take it personally. Not everyone digs what I do and what I bring to a project, and that\u2019s totally cool. At the same time, it\u2019s also pretty awesome that a lot of people do dig what I bring to a project, and that is also cool.<br \/>\nConsider this, about having perspective on criticism: If you enjoyed making a thing, and you\u2019re proud of the thing you made, that\u2019s enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and that\u2019s okay. And sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don\u2019t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you\u2019re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what\u2019s important.Don\u2019t let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.<br \/>\nThe goal isn\u2019t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn\u2019t before<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/wilwheaton.net\/2013\/12\/not-everyone-is-going-to-like-the-thing-you-made-and-thats-okay\/\">Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and that\u2019s okay | WIL WHEATON dot NET<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was younger, I would have completely ignored the first one, and obsessively focused on the second one to the point of feeling shitty about myself. Part of having Imposter Syndrome is believing that people who praise you are dupes, while the people who criticize you can actually see through everything. But the thing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/08\/not-everyone-is-going-to-like-the-thing-you-made-and-thats-okay-wil-wheaton-dot-net\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and that\u2019s okay &#124; WIL WHEATON dot NET&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,62,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-for-the-day","category-personal-angol","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}