Pick an artist you love and figure out what they’re weak at. Even legends have soft spots, and that’s freeing.

Admiration tends to flatten people into something complete, which makes your own gaps feel disqualifying. Look closely at anyone you love and you will find a weak area they work around, a thin range, clumsy endings, a subject they avoid. They built a whole body of work with those limits still in place. That is the freeing part, because a gap turns out to be a shape rather than a verdict.

Name one thing someone you admire is not good at, as specifically as you can. Then name a limit of your own and work around it instead of fixing it.