The clock’s hands move evenly through days whose burdens are anything but equal.

An hour is a unit only in the way it is measured. Two people can pass through the same afternoon while one carries a diagnosis and the other carries nothing heavier than errands, and no instrument on the wall will register the difference. Because the measure is neutral, it is tempting to treat the output as comparable, and to wonder why you achieved so little in the same span someone else used well.

Stop grading your day against the clock alone. Ask what it actually asked of you, and count that as part of what got done.