You weren’t pulled off an assembly line. You were handmade, and the Maker doesn’t do defects.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Mass production makes everything interchangeable, and that assumption creeps into how you think about yourself: one of many, standard issue, replaceable by the next person with the same skills. Being made by hand means the particulars were intended. The strange combination of things that makes you hard to categorise is not a manufacturing error.

Notice the part of yourself you describe as a flaw out of habit. Ask whether it is genuinely a problem or just a poor fit with a room you happen to be in. Keep it this week instead of apologising for it, and find out what it is actually good for.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which part of yourself do you treat as a manufacturing error?

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