Remember to do that. Daily. And especially whenever people tell you that design isn’t “worth doing.”

As to not being able to use an X-acto knife: that’s not as important as it used to be. People my age had to know all about zip-a-tone and Letraset, too; how many people of your age have to know about those things? How many people of any age who still know about them, also still have to use them?

But more importantly: the beginner and the master are always the same distance from the goal. The big difference between the beginner and the master is the fear that the beginner takes in that distance, and the joy that the master takes in that same distance.