Do you ever feel pressured to live up to your past best works? Maybe something you did was really well-received or achieved a certain level of recognition, and you feel like you have to match it with everything new you produce. You can experience this at any stage of your growth. It's not uncommon that this pressure on our creative process causes us to be more withdrawn and hesitant to put out new work. But the worst thing you can do is let a past success keep you from creating new things. We talk about overcoming this ambivalence.