Every smooth show has a crew dressed in black that nobody claps for. Learn to see them.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Anything that runs smoothly is hiding a great deal of work. The lighting, the timing, whoever set out the chairs, whoever fixed the thing quietly at four in the afternoon. Smoothness is evidence of effort rather than the absence of it, and the people responsible are usually the ones nobody names afterwards.

Find one of them this week and say something specific. Not a general thanks, but the actual thing you noticed them do. It takes ten seconds and gets remembered for years, mostly because so few people bother.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Who works backstage in your life without any applause?

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