Don’t get discouraged and go easy on yourself. “If you can sign your name, you can draw,” said Helen Birch ... It’s interesting work for your brain, a way of focusing your mind.” ...

But for the rest of you, well, you get his cartoons—where micro-anxieties hatched from his highly attuned, highly brilliant brain are tossed ... Do you snack while you draw?

Activating more parts of your brain helps stuff stick ... Now pick up your pen and draw a little sketch of one, then put the drawing face down somewhere you can’t see it. We’ll come back ...