Are you sabotaging your own best efforts? Probably. From Fairygodboss.
Damaging habit #3: not asking for feedback
“There are a lot of reasons why people don’t ask for feedback (for instance, fear, or they think they know what other people think), but the end result is they don’t know if what they are doing is actually working,” Baggett points out. “Feedback helps you realize what you are doing well, what your opportunities [for improvement] are, and it shows that you care about improving.”