A cracked phone screen still works. You don’t need to be flawless to be useful.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Damage and uselessness get treated as the same condition, and they are not. Something with a visible flaw can still do the whole job it was made for, and most of what you depend on every day has marks on it. Waiting to be unblemished before you count as useful is a long wait for a standard nothing meets.

Go ahead with one thing this week that you have been holding back because you are not ready. Submit the draft, go to the tryout, send the message with a typo in it. The cracked version in play beats the perfect one still in your pocket.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What do you let a flaw stop you from doing?

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