You judging yourself prematurely is probably why you think you don’t have what it takes. And that, my friend, is because you have a phobia of growth and improvement, because it will make you have no option but to confront how unready and how not so amazing you currently are, and for some reason you can’t seem to be able to live with that.

How far you actually are from your full potential when it comes to how good you really are or can ever be at something? It might take you years to find out what you’re really capable of, but you think square one is a good place to determine whether or not you were built for this. After all, if you really were that naturally talented at something, you will feel like you have a head start in what you’re trying so hard to become great at. It would feel so easy you feel you belong there from the start. Welcome home, you expect to think. I became a writer because I needed that in order to think, discover, and explain what I discovered to those who might get some sort of benefit from it. It took me decades before I stopped sucking majorly at it, at least from my perspective. Imagine if I listened to the feedback or criticism that I could’ve given myself based upon my performance so far in it or as a writer, back when I was still objectively horrible at it. And I consider myself to be someone who is naturally talented at writing and exists in this world to be a writer, from the start, from day one, because it has nothing to do with how good I am at it, it has to do with how much writing as a tool can help me become the person I’m truly meant to be. It’s about what happens to me when I believe I’m supposed to become a writer in order to reach my full creative potential. It’s like the force is strong with you, and that’s why you need Jedi training. It’s not the other way around, it’s not since I’m a Jedi, I became stronger in my force sensitivity. Whomever told you that you need to be super skilled from the start before you even begin deceived you big time. Having a natural talent or ability, and being able to express that talent or ability are two totally different things.

It will take you years, until you stop being horrible at what you’re truly meant to be or do for the rest of your life, even if you’re naturally more capable than everybody else at being the best there is at it, no matter what it is.