[Red_Tarsius]

I think your source of self-worth should not be what you do. The projects that make you proud today will be embarrassing to your future self. Many illustrators I know hate even looking at their 6 months old drawings. Learning is 99% failing, so focusing only on your career successes is not a sustainable strategy toward well-being.

imho self-worth must come from why you do something. Search for the core values that define your actions. Persistence, empathy, discipline... whatever you define as the leading factors of your life. Then stick with them. As long as you are true to yourself, that is, you stick to your why, you'll find self-worth.

this is a really interesting way of looking at other people. Try to understand their core values and compare them with yours.

Accept that your values may change over the years. Coherence is a self-defeating value.

[Varkiil]

I love reading my 6 months old code and feel like a complete stranger wrote it.

[johnchristopher]

Try doing the same with dreams. I find it is slightly disturbing if not downright scary how I can so easily forget such detailed accounts of my oniric life.

It makes me feel like a complete stranger too.