A friend works in a creative field. He’s a talented artist and was telling me how he hates being judged while presenting his work. So he prefers to do the work and let others sell or pitch it.
I told him this:
You’re being judged anyway. Best you inform that judgement with your presence.
Hiding from reality rarely changes the outcome, but when we do hide, we can never iterate on the fly, we can only wait for the news.