Nobody ever tested whether you “can’t draw.” You just repeated it until it sounded like biology.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

A great deal of what you call inability is an untested claim you picked up on one bad afternoon. Somebody laughed, or your version looked worse than the one next to it, and you drew a permanent conclusion from a sample of one, then stopped practising, which made the conclusion true. That is not a shortage of talent. It is a missing decade of attempts.

Take the thing you say you cannot do and give it half an hour a week for two months. You are not trying to be good at it. You are checking whether the claim was ever true.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which skill did you decide you lacked without ever trying?

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