The background artists on an animated film rarely get noticed, yet the film’s whole world is built on their work.

Credit flows to the visible parts, and the visible parts rest on work designed not to be noticed. A painted street, a sky, the dust in a room: if you noticed them the scene would stop working, so their success is invisibility. Most fields run this way, with a layer of people holding up the thing everyone else gets thanked for.

Find the invisible layer in something you care about and look at it on purpose. Watch one scene for the backgrounds alone. Then ask who is doing that job in your own team, your crew, your family, and say something to them about it this week.