The kid who stutters through the presentation and finishes it did something harder than the smooth kid did.

Difficulty is personal, and a room only ever sees the surface. Standing up with something working against you and finishing anyway takes far more than those same five minutes cost the person they came easily to. Smoothness measures the distance between the task and the speaker, not the effort spent. Nobody grades that, which is why you have to count it yourself.

Give yourself credit by the right measure this week: what the thing actually cost you, not how it looked from the back row. And when you watch someone push through a version that is clearly costing them, say so afterwards, plainly, without making a speech of it.