Breadcrumbs

One of the most satisfying things about learning to make stuff: you watch feelings of despair and inadequacy dissolve into a better realization. Every reason you aren't good enough, every evidence of your weakness or incompetence, loses its threat when you notice that you are looking at what to do next. Far from saying you cannot, the flaws in your work are leads and ideas. Not happy with this bit here, but you know it's doing something, and you feel it just came out that way and ought to stay? If you have the freedom to experiment, then do so. Between feeling no good and trying stuff out, where's the contest?

It's more disheartening at first when you have less skill and less faith that you can turn critique into improvement. But mere effort and experience are your mentors. One day you will know, with certainty, that you have turned a critique into an improvement. From that day forward, if you wish, if you remember, you can always tell yourself that you know what to do with flaws: work on them, trust in them. They are your leads.