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You gotta get good at something because the resulting confidence will help a lot.
Foreword: I'm not being combative, just analytical.
This line of thinking perpetuates the problem. The point is to get good because you, personally, want to get good and derive satisfaction from competence 'in a vacuum.' If you seek competence for the sake of its artificially associated value (i.e. productive member of society, validation, etc.), then you're basically locking yourself into unrelenting standards.
I get good because it feels awesome. IDGAF about others standards or what they want me to provide them.