Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

You are given a particular nature and particular circumstances, and the work is to do that well rather than to do somebody else’s well. Much wasted effort comes from performing a role that was never yours: the quiet person straining to be the charmer, the careful one trying to be the improviser. There is no credit in being a second-rate version of another person.

Name the thing you do naturally that you have been treating as a lesser gift. Give it a proper place this week, and stop apologising for not being the other sort of person in the room.