Encore Anxiety
AI summary of the linked articleEncore anxiety is the distress of knowing people expect you to be brilliant again after your work has been appreciated, often without being sure how you achieved it the first time. Because the concept requires admitting past success, which polite society tends to discourage, the idea is that people would be better off being honest about their wins, losses and goals. Unlike outright failure, it is described as the exquisite agony of being expected to repeat a success. |
1 comment mishaSubmitter Part of creative growth is accepting that some people who loved your early work will hate what you become, and that's exactly as it should be. Disappoint people. |