The best work often feels effortless because effort was spent removing friction beforehand.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Work that feels smooth to experience is usually work where someone anticipated every place you might have stumbled and removed it first. The ease you feel is not the absence of effort but the result of effort spent in advance, on your behalf, in places you will never look.

Before finishing something, walk through it as the person receiving it rather than the person who made it. Where would they hesitate, guess, or have to ask. Every hesitation you eliminate now becomes an ease they never notice, which is exactly what you are aiming for.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Whose easy-looking skill have you underestimated the preparation behind?

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