Visuals increase the velocity of your message by an order of magnitude.
You can (and should) get better at writing, speaking, selling, etc. All brilliant skills with massive leverage.
But realizing that "design" isn't a skill reserved for art school or design specific careers, is a ridiculously powerful force multiplier for your ideas.
The barriers that used to exist: expensive software, tuition, certification, etc are no longer there.
Fire up YouTube, crack open Figma and experiment.
99/100 people will never do this because they aren't "creative."
This is an exclusively financial concept to most, but I like to think of it as it applies to value in general.
What can you do for someone that they couldn't (or wouldn't) do previously?
That's an arbitrage opportunity.
The ability to spot arbitrage opportunities in a spreadsheet or a financial terminal ultimately results in the same outcome as identifying a need for a product in an underserved market:
I think it would be good if we collectively decided that the majority of things we categorize as mistakes are simply the necessary stumbling blocks between being bad at something and being competent.
Celebrate mistake makers, they fail so you don’t have to.