The best stew in the world can’t be microwaved into existence.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Certain outcomes are made of duration itself and cannot be produced by adding energy. Flavor, trust, skill and recovery all work this way, since the components have to sit together while something slow happens between them. Adding heat to a process that needs hours just gives you a hot version of the raw thing.

Ask whether what you are rushing is an effort problem or a time problem. If it is time, put it on a longer schedule and stop checking daily. Then go and spend the impatience on something that genuinely does respond to speed.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which goal of yours has no fast version?

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