I am creative, strong, powerful, brave, and inspired.

Nobody holds all five at once. They take shifts. Bravery covers for you on days creativity has nothing, and strength is often just what's left standing when inspiration has been quiet for a fortnight.

Think of them less as traits than as a crew — on any given Tuesday two are working and three are asleep in the back. It isn't a report card you're failing. It's an inventory of what's in the building, some of it dormant this week, which is a different thing entirely from absent.