In almost everything we do we innovate or tinker with, or we “improve” it or try to change it, perhaps sometimes adapt it or even re-purpose it. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. But to innovate is an unescapable human quality.
There is a very famous film of Picasso painting live. About halfway through creating an effortless masterpiece he says “ Ca va tres mal” (it’s going very badly). Even someone like Picasso struggled to get a painting to go where he wanted it to go. It’s his self-belief, confidence and self-trust that allows him to work through the “bad” stage and experience that tells him that he can make it right. I’m certainly not in that league, but that helped me to understand that I should push through (although sometime you can try too hard and take a sketch too far) and trust my instinct.