The last bit is funny since it&#x27;s basically the same thing for people with impostor syndrome (which seems pretty common in the industry) but those people may or may not subjectively feel like they&#x27;re trying their best regardless. A trick I think helps in either case is to compare with others -- are you obviously at the bottom of the pack by your own standards (which are probably too high)? If no, stop stressing. (For some reason this doesn&#x27;t develop into an ego thing for me, or a devaluation of other coworkers whose work I think is less stellar than my own even though I&#x27;m not putting in 100%... But if that happened that would be a whole new problem.) At one job seeing a 95th percentile commit count per month that was less than 12 (with an average of about 4-5) made me worry a lot less about not committing anything for over a week. The job before that I was used to committing something every day or sometimes every other day.