You’re capable of more than you think you are

Last night I remembered my grade 9 art class where this same boy told our teacher he couldn’t draw so he wasn’t even going to try. She told him he probably used to love to draw when he was little until someone told him he wasn’t doing it right or made fun of him. She encouraged him he did have the ability but just lack the training. That is what she was here for. I thought to myself last night how many times in my life have I given up thinking I can’t do something because of the criticism of another?