Take a class in something you’re bad at. It’ll sneak into what you’re good at.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Skills leak sideways. A term of pottery turns up in how you think about weight in a drawing, and a term of dance turns up in how you time a cut, because you are not really learning a subject so much as another way of deciding. Staying only where you are strong narrows the number of moves available to you. Being bad at something is the price of the transfer.

Sign up for one thing you are not good at, ideally something you do with your hands. Go for the experience rather than the grade. Watch for the week when it shows up in your main work.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What are you bad at that you would enjoy learning?

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