Reframe a Creative Block as a Missing Permission

Creative blocks are often described as capacity problems (I cannot do this) when they are actually permissions problems (I am not allowing myself to do this yet). The most common withheld permissions are subtle: permission to be bad, to be seen while uncertain, to make something with no audience, or to take up space without justification. This identifies the permission most likely at the root of a specific block and turns it into a behavioural change.

I have been blocked on {CREATIVE_PROJECT} for approximately {DURATION}. I know what I want to make but I cannot seem to start or continue. The block feels like: [describe the sensation or pattern].

Help me reframe this as a permissions problem rather than a capacity problem:
1. What the most common implicit permissions creative people need but rarely name (permission to be bad, to be seen, to fail publicly, to take up space, to not have an audience yet, or others)
2. Which permission I am most likely withholding from myself based on how I described the block
3. What granting that permission would look like in practice: not an affirmation, but an actual behaviour change or decision
4. One ten-minute exercise I could do today to test whether the permission is the right diagnosis

Be specific to the type of creative work involved, not generic.