Lessons are unlikely to stick unless they are repeated. Behaviors are unlikely to stick unless they are repeated. Love is unlikely to stick unless … - James Clear

In order to improve for good, you need to solve problems at the systems level. Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.

Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn't matter how good or how bad it is. You don't need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something. There are no artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, or scientists who became great by half-finishing their work. Stop debating what you should make and just make something.

The way someone else perceives what you do is a result of their own experiences (which you can't control), their own preferences (which you can't predict), and their own expectations (which you don't set).

If your choices don't match their expectations that is their concern, not yours.