A scale reads zero when nothing’s on it and still isn’t broken. Empty seasons don’t mean you’re broken.

A flat stretch is not a diagnosis. There are months with no results in them, no team, no job, nothing to report at dinner, and the absence of output is not evidence that something inside you has failed. An instrument reads nothing when nothing is on it, and the instrument is fine. Much of what matters in an empty season is invisible even to you.

In the middle of one, lower what counts as a day well spent and keep two or three things steady: sleep, movement, one person you talk to. If the emptiness feels like more than a season, say so to somebody who can help.