Excellence is not adding everything; it is refusing what weakens the whole.

There is a strong instinct to make something better by adding, another feature, another point, another element. Most of the time the addition dilutes what was already working, and the improvement lies in removing whatever is pulling against the whole. Refusing things is harder than including them because it looks like doing less.

With your current work, try taking something out rather than putting something in. Remove the weakest element and see what happens to the rest. Usually the whole becomes clearer, and the thing you removed was costing more than it gave.