As an artist, it’s easy to become disheartened when you make something, publish it, and find that no one really cares.

A mindset that can help you overcome this and avoid becoming jaded is viewing yourself as the first and most passionate advocate for your art.

Your art, with its great potential, can’t speak or advocate for its greatness by itself. It needs someone to do this for it.

And you, as the artist, play this role. Ultimately, no one is going to be a stronger advocate for it than you. At least, at first.