Until you work as hard as those you admire, don't explain away their success as luck. - James Clear

If you want to avoid criticism, create less.

If you want to avoid irrelevance, create more.

Gut reactions are usually very wrong or very right.

They tend to be wrong when they are based purely on emotion and in domains where you lack experience. They tend to be right when they are rooted in deep understanding and well-developed taste.

Trust your gut when you have the experience to back it up.

Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.