Start now. Your future self will thank you.

I've been learning to draw. And I'm really bad at it. I don't think I have zero talent. I could've been good, if I'd started when I was 12. But instead I absorbed the idea that I wasn't an artistic person, so I never thought about that stuff ever.

Whereas at exactly the same time, some people in my life said I was good with words (and admittedly I spent …