Knowing your limit isn’t weakness. Pretending you don’t have one is how things break.

Limits are ordinary physical facts, much like needing sleep, and treating them as a question of character is how people end up injured or flattened. Working near the edge is fine and sometimes necessary. What breaks things is pretending the edge is not there, which removes any chance to plan around it and turns a manageable constraint into a sudden stop.

Name yours out loud in one area this week. How many hard sessions, how many late nights, how many things at once. Then build the week around that number rather than discovering it the hard way.