Hands separate before hands together. Break the hard thing into pieces small enough to win.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Hard things are usually several small things stacked too close together. Separating them lets you win something, and winning something is what keeps you coming back. Trying the whole motion at once means failing at all of it and learning only that it is wrong, which is not the same as learning what to fix. Split it up and each piece becomes solvable on its own.

Take whatever you keep bouncing off and cut it into pieces you could finish in ten minutes: right hand alone, one paragraph, one set of eight. Do the first piece today.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What could you split into a piece you would win?

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