When I was a child, I would often envision an incredibly rich, detailed image (usually something related to monsters or robots or superheroes), but I would be incapable of translating that envisioning to graphite and paper.

That inability to draw things the way I thought they should look was frustrating, and it motivated me to redouble my burgeoning doodling efforts, to take all sorts of advanced placement art classes, and to eventually major in art with a focus on drawing (before eventually ...