Dig out your fifth-grade drawings or stories. The kid who made them knew some things you’ve forgotten.

At ten you made things without checking whether they were any good first. The drawings are badly proportioned and completely confident, which is a combination that gets harder to produce every year. What that kid had was not talent but the absence of an audience in their head.

Find the box, the folder, the old notebook, and look at what you were making before you learned to be careful. Notice what you were interested in, because it is often still true. Then make one thing this month to that standard, which means without checking.