There are reports of this sort of thing in the arts. A world-renowned soloist will, on a lark, busk on a street corner to see what happens. Invariably, hardly anyone will pay the slightest attention. S/he’s a busker, so obviously s/he’s no good.

And yet some of those same people will plunk down $100+ for balcony tickets to see that very same artist do the very same thing on a New York stage — and give a standing ovation at the end!

I’ve experienced this myself on a much smaller scale. I’m hardly a world-renowned artist, but when I perform on a stage people applaud enthusiastically and tell me how much they enjoyed it. But when I do the same thing at home, people walk by, acting as if I’m a nuisance that’s best ignored.