I try new things.

*Try* is the generous word here. It contains no promise that you'll be any good at the thing.

There's a lopsided bowl on a shelf somewhere, glazed a colour nobody would choose, holding keys. Its maker took one ceramics class and never went back. It's still the best object in the room, because it's the only one proving something was attempted.

Most adults stop trying new things less from lack of time than from an unwillingness to be a beginner in front of witnesses. That's it. That's the barrier, and it's smaller than it feels — it dissolves about forty minutes into the first session.