Codie Sanchez explains the spotlight effect: a child wearing an embarrassing shirt thinks everyone notices, but almost nobody does. Most people don't care about your life, and that's freedom from the anxiety of judgment.
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The impossibly hard truth is that nobody's thinking about you whatsoever. The world is actually completely indifferent to you. Most people have no care in the world about what you do with your life. They think about you so little as to make you insignificant. And if that makes you feel bad or sad, I think it should actually free you. There's this thing called the spotlight effect, which is a research phenomenon where they send a kid to school with a super embarrassing t-shirt on. The kid, of course, thinks 50% of the class is looking at him. Everybody's paying attention to him. When they polled the students, only 25% noticed the shirt, and most of them thought about it for about a second. If this doesn't free you, it should. There is only a spotlight on you in your mind. Everywhere else, you are in a dark ballroom, nobody else looking at you. And even if they were, they forgot about you the minute that they left.