The things surrounding you influence how much friction ordinary life contains.

Your surroundings set the difficulty level of ordinary days. A drawer that sticks, a lamp too dim to read by, a chair that hurts after twenty minutes: none of these is worth complaining about, and all of them are taxing you daily. The friction is small enough to tolerate and constant enough to matter.

Spend a week noticing the tiny irritations rather than absorbing them. Then fix the three cheapest ones. The improvement to your daily life will be wildly out of proportion to the effort, which is the usual signature of friction you had stopped seeing.