“What if?” might be the two most creative words you own. Point them at everything.

Two words turn a fixed thing into an option. Most of what surrounds you is treated as settled: the rules of the assignment, the way the game is played, the shape a song takes. Asking what if pulls one of those out and lets you see whether it was holding anything up. Half the time it was not, and nobody had checked in years.

Point the question at something small this week. What if the essay started at the end, what if practice ran in a different order, what if the video had no words. Follow one of the answers far enough to see it, not just say it.