When every little piece of work you produce is the gold standard and must be the best of the best you suffer from perfectionism. You also may be playing to the crowd. You think that if you play well you will be noticed and beloved.
What happens is your dependence on the roar of applause becomes the air you breathe and the result is paralysis of putting anything before the audience because it will a.) never be that masterpiece and b.) if they do not cheer, you’re devastated.
So treat work like work. Most of it goes unnoticed and doesn’t change the game. It’s just good, hard, honest work. You don’t have to be special to work hard, but lots of hard work goes into being special.