Your wobbly line might be the thing people recognize you by. Don’t sand off every flaw.

The parts of your work you keep apologizing for are often the parts nobody else can copy. A perfectly even line looks like a hundred other even lines. The shake in your handwriting, the way your voice cracks on the high note, the colors you always reach for, that is how people pick you out of a feed.

Before you fix something this week, ask whether it is actually broken or just unusual. Keep a short list of the quirks you were about to smooth away, and leave one of them in the next thing you finish.